Hello All, I'm working on 3d-printed programmable fabrics for medical compression garments and mechanical counterpressure spacesuits. For manufacturing, I have been using a technique that is similar to the chainmail dress demonstration detailed in Professor Hammad Mazhar's PhD Thesis <https://uwmadison.app.box.com/s/0rqfqrua51lt8cmobshbyabzyb4450xx> (pg. 135). However, the methods I have been using for rigid body physics simulation have proven insufficient for our current needs, leading me to explore Chrono.
I was incredibly impressed by the quality and efficiency of Professor Mazhar's chainmail simulation and have encountered challenges in implementing similar interconnected structures using PyChrono. Professor Mazhar describes the rings as being generated as several connected cylinders, but I have not figured out how to use PyChrono to add multi-part colliders with specified translation/rotation from a starting point. In an ideal world, I can add a triangle mesh torus as the visual layer (which later gets printed), and distribute many sphere colliders around the torus that are oversized from the surface, so that the visual layers never actually touch. In the end, I also need to figure out how to export the visual layer as a mesh for manufacturing. I would greatly appreciate any advice on how to execute this with PyChrono. Thank you very much! -- 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/23f67def-0a66-4d29-b134-b1fbb98b8f17n%40googlegroups.com.
