Hi Luning, thanks for the help! On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 7:35:09 PM UTC-7 [email protected] wrote:
> Hello Tristan, > > You can take a look at this demo demo_IRR_callbackNSC.py > <https://github.com/projectchrono/chrono/blob/main/src/demos/mbs/demo_MBS_callbackNSC.cpp#L41>, > > where a callback class is used to report contact info such as contact > point, contact normal, contact forces, etc, for each contact. Note that the > contact force reported is expressed in the contact reference frame > (plane_coord), with its X-axis being the contact normal. Given this info, > you can compute normal and friction forces. > > Thank you, > Luning > > On Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at 3:02:04 PM UTC-5 [email protected] wrote: > >> Hello, my name is Tristan Griffith and I'm a student researcher who is >> learning how to use PyChrono for a grabbing simulation. I have set up a >> simulation in which a cube with a NSC material is grabbed by a tentacle >> with smaller NSC material tabs on it. I was wondering how to access the >> contact values, specifically the normal force and friction force that comes >> from these contacts and what the best way to store/plot these values would >> be. Thanks! > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "ProjectChrono" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/projectchrono/6b5c1340-f55d-4b07-be0f-2ac5f6f8f457n%40googlegroups.com.
