MaplePrimes - answers and comments on Question, Ground pattern component for Maplesim

Hi Brunoleos, The Planetary

Graham — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 01:14:04 Z

Hi Brunoleos,

The Planetary Rover model will be posted to the Maple Application Center in the near future, and you can take a look at the ground/wheel interaction in this model. The "ground pattern" is a CAD geometry that serves for visualization only. The interaction itself is modeled through signal components which draw from STL information that has been inputted as a lookup table. Currently, it's not possible to model the ground/wheel interaction directly through CAD geometry or built in ground pattern components.

Thanks,

Graham

Hi everyone. I do what Bruno indicates regarding

celuti — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 14:34:03 Z

Hi everyone.

I do what Bruno indicates regarding to convert the csv file to an xls one, but I receive the next error message:

"unable to store 0.5 when datatype=float[8]"

Does anyone know how to solve it?

Thank you very much.

Thanks for make learning easier!

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brunoleos — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 03:08:44 Z

Graham, thanks for the answer!

So, as you said, the interaction is made through signals generated from a lookup table. I see 2 direct possibilities for this:
1. The lookup table was populated automatically from the STL file, inside Maplesim;
2. The STL file was processed in Maple and the dataset created and loaded into Maplesim

If it was made as in 1, how can I create the data set directly from the STL file? And, if it was made as in 2, what is the data set file format that Maplesim can understand?