I compiled the latest opende revision from the subversion repository. Idem
for pyode. I didn't tell the configure scripts to use 64 bits.

Thomas

2010/2/24 Henrik Rudstrom <hrudst...@googlemail.com>

> Looks like really good fun!
> just one question, how did you compile ode/pyode?
> tried the macports version, but it threw me segmentation errors and a lot
> of these: "inertia must be positive definite in dMassCheck() File
> mass.cpp"
> Tried compiling manually, but i can't get the configure script to
> understand that i want 64 bits...
>
> Henrik Rudstrom
>
>
>
> On 21 February 2010 19:12, Thomas Paviot <tpav...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> A few years ago, I developed a software aimed at providing rigid body
>> simulation features to Catia V5 or SolidWorks. This project, known as
>> "Decade dynamics", is not active anymore although many users are frequently
>> asking for new features or bugfixes (for your information, a website
>> dedicated to the project is available at  http://www.decade-dynamics.org,
>> there also is a PDF document here:
>> http://download.gna.org/decade/decade_A4_recto_basse_def.pdf and
>> http://download.gna.org/decade/decade_A4_verso_basse_def.pdf - All this
>> material is in french, sorry).
>>
>> The limitations I faced when working on that project are the root of my
>> motivation to start the pythonOCC project:
>> - the small 'free' API provided with Catia or SolidWorks (a VB API) is not
>> sufficient to access all internal classes/method,
>> - the complete API (known as CAA for Catia) is very expensive,
>> - there are licensing issues if you ever want to redistribute such a
>> program. I chose to distribute Decade under the GPL license, and never had
>> any problem with software vendors: I never made money with it, there's no
>> real business opportunity, so lawyers dont' care about my work.
>>
>> However, I'm still interested in rigid body simulation, since it's much
>> important when working in the robotics/mechatronics field and, more
>> generally speaking, in engineering. I committed to the pythonOCC subversion
>> the first draft of a DYN package dedicated to rigid body simulation (you can
>> have a look at this video to see the first results:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IW5VYbCGFYc).
>>
>> This DYN package is at the same level as PAF(Parametric Application
>> Framework). The set of sub-packages PAF/DYN/MSH/FEM are what we called the
>> 'Level2 API': it's an intermediate layer between the OCC kernel (LeveL1) and
>> the applications that can be built on top of them. The goal is also to make
>> them interoperable, I mean being able to exchange data in a consistent way:
>> I imagine a 3D complex model, made with PAF, simulated with DYN to get
>> forces in joints, checked with a FEM analysis, then optimized  according to
>> these results (the design/simulation loop), and finally exported to a STEP
>> file for manufacturing. All of these sub-packages would rely on
>> a semantically explicit knowledge (KBE). Well, this is not a roadmap, rather
>> a long term objective...
>>
>> Please let me know if you have any comment or suggestion,
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Thomas
>>
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