Having trouble opening scene editor in SOFA on windows 10

[Roque]

Hi everyone Im new to the Sofa world and just recently downloaded SOFA v20.06 using Binary along with python 2.7.10 and numpy. I followed the tutorial from first steps on youtube but when I run sofa and create a new scene it comes out as a .scn rather than .pyscn as shown on the video. How can I make the interface come out as a .pyscn as shown on the video? My second question is that when I right click on Default Visual Manager Loop and go to open file in editor nothing comes out how can I get the editor to come out? My third question is why is it that when I copy the link from first step tutorial into doc browser the tutorial doesn’t come up? Any help would be very much appreciated as I am still learning how to use this Software. Thank You

[Hugo]

Dear @rmartinez

Thank you for your interest in SOFA and welcome on the SOFA forum.
Sorry for the delay of this reply. The SOFA Week occured last week and kept us busy for some time! We will soon get back on track with a normal rhythm.

In SOFA, we have a script allowing for translating your xml script into a python (2.7) one. It is located in the SofaPython plugin. It is called scn2python.py. But at best, you can learn to understand and make this translation yourself.

I am not sure to understand your question on the AnimationLoop component. An AnimationLoop is a component ordering each simulation step. However, it is not computing anything. It is therefore a quite passive component. And the GUI component does not show much indeed. Doc on the AnimationLoop can be found here.

I don’t know in details the SoftRobot robot tutorial. Maybe @damien-marchaluniv-lille1-fr could help you on this.

I hope this helps.
Best wishes,

Hugo

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