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preferred joint movement

Posted: 17 Mar 2014, 19:50
by juerg
Hi
in my model I have a Spherical_Basis and 3 revolute joints. When I run the simulation the Spherical_Basis rotates around the z-axis. I need however a rotation of the revolute joints in order to avoid the collisions of the <x>2 elements. The <x>2 elements will then need to be shortend.
I could not find a setting to give priority to the revolutes in favor of the z-rotation of the Spherical_Basis or avoid completely the z-rotation of it.

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Juerg

Re: preferred joint movement

Posted: 17 Mar 2014, 23:16
by coppelia
Hello Juerg,

select your spherical joint (the base joint) then specify a very small IK calculation weight in the joint properties.

Cheers

Re: preferred joint movement

Posted: 19 Mar 2014, 18:14
by juerg
Perfect ! Thanks

Tried it with a change from 1.0 to 0.5 but seeing that it didn't change anything did not try smaller values! With 0.01 it looks like what I want.