Very nice, works perfectly!

Henrik Rudstrom



On 24 February 2010 17:53, Thomas Paviot <tpav...@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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