Damien Marchal

Hi MA,

About mesh generation, CGAL is rather hard to use.
If you prefer it is possible to rely on GMESH for meshing.
Stefan Escaida and I made helping function for that STLIB/SoftRobots plugins.

It is undocumented feature in:
https://github.com/SofaDefrost/STLIB/tree/master/python/splib/geometric

But there is “createScene” function that will…[Read more]

Hello,

I’m glad to hear about people trying the SoftRobot plugins.
My first advice is that if you don’t need to compile your self the plugin we are now providing binary version of Sofa+SoftRobot+SoftRobots.Inverse+STLIB. They are available at: https://project.inria.fr/softrobot/install-get-started-2/download/

But if these version are not recent…[Read more]

Hi Binesh,

Thanks a lot for the video you made. It is very helpful to anyone.

Damien.

Hi Wong,

I’m not surprised there is a lot of bug in the DistanceField plugins because it is not often used. As SOFA is developed by volunteers if you know c++ and have the willing you are welcome to submit patches fixing things (https://github.com/sofa-framework/sofa/pulls), and we would be pleased to help you if needed. If you are not a c++…[Read more]

Hello Wong,

Did you made some progress on that topic ?

Hi Wong,

You can have Distance Field collisions by activating the SofaDistanceGrid plugin.
I don’t know if this plugin is available in the binary release of Sofa; If this is not the case you will need to re-compile Sofa by activating the plugin in the cmake build process.

When the plugin is on you will be able to execute the example that is in…[Read more]

Hi Fatima,

I just looked at and TetrahedronFEMForceField does not expose the stiffnessMatrix so it is not surprising it does not work.

Adding a new Data to a component is not hard, assuming you know c++ and that the data you want to expose is available in the component. I don’t know for TetrahedronFEMFOrceField so I advice you to open an issue…[Read more]

Hi all,

To have the graphical user interface it is important to compile sofa with Qt5. It may happens that, depending on how it is installed on your systems, it is not detected.

In that case I know two options:

The first one is to stop using cmake but instead use qtcreator (you need a recent version of it) to load the CMakeLists.txt, in that…[Read more]

Hello,

There is two issues… The first problem I see is that the build system still don’t find Qt5. This is why it is written SoftRobots: Using Qt4 for some controllers which appears when Qt5 is not found. I think it is much better to make it compile with Qt5.

For the other error. Are you restarting the script in an non-empty directory (with…[Read more]

If you think that shorter is better you can also write:

state_button1 = your_GeomagicDriver.button_1


This works because the python binding search for each “MyComponent.xxxx” if there is a data with the xxxx name.

Hi outtt,

I remember that, few years ago, some have implemented collisions based on distance field representation to simulate a catheter moving into blood vessels while the vessels moving to follow heart movement. The advantage of this distance field approach was excellent performances of the collision pipeline even with a very big blood vessel…[Read more]

To Shiva,
From your logs your problem seems rather different so to me you need to continue the compilation process by typing ninja or Make as said in the guidlines: https://www.sofa-framework.org/community/doc/getting-started/build/linux/
In case this is still not working and you need more help can you please open a new issue of your own so it…[Read more]

Hi,

I don’t know which forcefield you are using but if the stiffness matrix of the force field you are using is exposed as a Data then yes it can be accessed at each time step using a PythonScriptController.

Eg taken from the previous python script controller

def onBeginAnimationStep(self, dt):
'''This method is called…[Read more]

Hi all,

Is this issue solved ?

Damien.

Hi,

I think the answer from stefan is right if you have installed qt libraries with the apt package manager.

If you used the package manager/installer from the qt web site you have to check the QtWebEngine boxes in the packages list of the installer GUI

Best,

In the previous script, everything is based on the master “branches” so despite all the scenes are working the html tutorials will not be displayed properly.

To have good rendering of the tutorials you need to use the Documentation branch

# Step 0: download and install the latest qt version,
#…[Read more]

Hi @csullivan107,

Here is more or less what I’m doing in a .sh script when I’m preparing a new machine for Sofa:

# Step 0: download and install the latest qt version
# http://download.qt.io/official_releases/online_installers/

# Step 1: install all the dependencies
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install cmake…[Read more]

Hi Pierre,

Good to hear, and feel free to ask when you have questions or see bugs or behavior change in Sofa.

These feedback are really useful to improve our code base.

Damien.

Hi @rubab123,

Are you displaying the graph using PyQt I think the closest you can do is to use the cleanup method of PythonScriptController as in the following example:

import Sofa

def cleanup(self):…[Read more]

H Fayad,

Is this problem solved ?

Regards,
Damien