[SOLVED] I want to study about SOFA

[minmin]

Hello, I’m a korea student who want to study SOFA.

My major is Computer Programming.

I’m interested in Deformable model in various fields. (ex.simulation..)

My development environment
– Windows 7 64 Bits
– Visual Studio 2013
– Sofa v15.12
– CMake 3.2.3
– QT 5.5.1

If i will be well-acquainted with SOFA, How can I do?

I wonder OpenGL’s Structure in Sofa, and how to make multimodel mappings(Behavior, Collision, Visual, ex) liver.scn)

[Froy]

안녕하세요,

The best way to learn about Sofa framework would be:
– read the online documentation at https://www.sofa-framework.org/community/doc/introduction/
. Note that the documentation is being (re)written so you have to wait a little for certain parts to be populated.
– after successfully compiling Sofa, execute the several step-by-step scenes in the examples/Tutorials/StepByStep directory, and more generally all the scenes in examples/Tutorials
– if you are looking in a particular field (for example Collision), you can have a look examples/Components/, and try to play with the parameters.

As for OpenGL, every component can override the draw() function in which you can put your OpenGL calls to display debug information.

[minmin]

Froy,

Thanks to you, I could study SOFA easy.

Can I ask you one more thing?

How to create the “.msh” and “.sph” file?

[Hugo]

Hi Minmin,

To learn about SOFA, I would advise you to read over the documentation. It is unfortunately still not complete, but we are currently working on it.

You can also refer to the book chapter about SOFA.

Finally, about the files you want to generate:

• for .msh files, Gmsh or Tetgen allow to generate this format
• for .sph, this is a format to define spheres. It can be generated manually or maybe (not sure) this page may help you.

Do not hesitate to carry on using the forum if you have any further questions.
Cheers,

Hugo

[minmin]

Hi, Hugo.

I’m thankful every time about your help.

I will try hard for solving this question.

Thank You.

[Hugo]

Nice, good luck!

If you need further help, do not hesitate to create a new thread! We would be glad to assist you again!
Cheers,

Hugo

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