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MechanicalStateController

Provides a Mouse & Keyboard user control on a Mechanical State.

Templates:

  • Rigid3d
  • Vec1d

Target: Sofa.Component.Controller

namespace: sofa::component::controller

parents:

  • Controller

Data

Name Description Default value
name object name unnamed
printLog if true, emits extra messages at runtime. 0
tags list of the subsets the object belongs to
bbox this object bounding box
componentState The state of the component among (Dirty, Valid, Undefined, Loading, Invalid). Undefined
listening if true, handle the events, otherwise ignore the events 0
handleEventTriggersUpdate Event handling frequency controls the controller update frequency 0
index Index of the controlled DOF 0
onlyTranslation Controlling the DOF only in translation 0
buttonDeviceState state of ths device button 0
mainDirection Main direction and orientation of the controlled DOF 0 0 -1
Name Description Destination type name
context Graph Node containing this object (or BaseContext::getDefault() if no graph is used) BaseContext
slaves Sub-objects used internally by this object BaseObject
master nullptr for regular objects, or master object for which this object is one sub-objects BaseObject

Examples

MechanicalStateController.scn

<!-- MechanicalStateController example -->
<Node name="root" dt="0.005" gravity="0 -10 0">
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Algorithm"/> <!-- Needed to use components [BVHNarrowPhase BruteForceBroadPhase CollisionPipeline] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Intersection"/> <!-- Needed to use components [LocalMinDistance] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Response.Contact"/> <!-- Needed to use components [CollisionResponse] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Constraint.Projective"/> <!-- Needed to use components [FixedProjectiveConstraint] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Controller"/> <!-- Needed to use components [MechanicalStateController] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.IO.Mesh"/> <!-- Needed to use components [MeshGmshLoader] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.LinearSolver.Direct"/> <!-- Needed to use components [BTDLinearSolver] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Mass"/> <!-- Needed to use components [UniformMass] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.ODESolver.Backward"/> <!-- Needed to use components [EulerImplicitSolver] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.SolidMechanics.FEM.Elastic"/> <!-- Needed to use components [BeamFEMForceField] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.StateContainer"/> <!-- Needed to use components [MechanicalObject] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Topology.Container.Dynamic"/> <!-- Needed to use components [EdgeSetGeometryAlgorithms EdgeSetTopologyContainer EdgeSetTopologyModifier] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Visual"/> <!-- Needed to use components [VisualStyle] -->

    <DefaultAnimationLoop/>
    <VisualStyle displayFlags="showForceFields showCollisionModels" />
    <CollisionPipeline depth="6" verbose="0" draw="0" />
    <BruteForceBroadPhase/>
    <BVHNarrowPhase/>
    <LocalMinDistance name="Proximity" alarmDistance="1.0" contactDistance="0.5" />
    <CollisionResponse name="Response" response="PenalityContactForceField" />
    <Node name="InstrumentEdgeSet">
        <EulerImplicitSolver rayleighStiffness="0" printLog="false"  rayleighMass="0.1" />
        <BTDLinearSolver template="BTDMatrix6d" printLog="false" verbose="false" />
        <MeshGmshLoader name="loader" filename="mesh/edgeSet.msh" />
        <MechanicalObject src="@loader" name="MechanicalDOFs" template="Rigid3" position="0 0 0 0 0 0 1  1 0 0 0 0 0 1  2 0 0 0 0 0 1" showObject="1"/>
        <include href="Objects/EdgeSetTopology.xml" src="@loader" template="Rigid3" />
        <MechanicalStateController template="Rigid3" listening="true" mainDirection="-1.0 0.0 0.0" handleEventTriggersUpdate="true" />
        <FixedProjectiveConstraint name="FixedProjectiveConstraint" indices="0" />
        <UniformMass vertexMass="1 1 0.1 0 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0.1" printLog="false" /> 

        <BeamFEMForceField name="FEM" radius="0.1" youngModulus="50000000" poissonRatio=".49"/>
    </Node>
</Node>
def createScene(root_node):

   root = root_node.addChild('root', dt="0.005", gravity="0 -10 0")

   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Algorithm")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Intersection")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Response.Contact")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Constraint.Projective")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Controller")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.IO.Mesh")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.LinearSolver.Direct")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Mass")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.ODESolver.Backward")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.SolidMechanics.FEM.Elastic")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.StateContainer")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Topology.Container.Dynamic")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Visual")
   root.addObject('DefaultAnimationLoop', )
   root.addObject('VisualStyle', displayFlags="showForceFields showCollisionModels")
   root.addObject('CollisionPipeline', depth="6", verbose="0", draw="0")
   root.addObject('BruteForceBroadPhase', )
   root.addObject('BVHNarrowPhase', )
   root.addObject('LocalMinDistance', name="Proximity", alarmDistance="1.0", contactDistance="0.5")
   root.addObject('CollisionResponse', name="Response", response="PenalityContactForceField")

   instrument_edge_set = root.addChild('InstrumentEdgeSet')

   instrument_edge_set.addObject('EulerImplicitSolver', rayleighStiffness="0", printLog="false", rayleighMass="0.1")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('BTDLinearSolver', template="BTDMatrix6d", printLog="false", verbose="false")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('MeshGmshLoader', name="loader", filename="mesh/edgeSet.msh")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('MechanicalObject', src="@loader", name="MechanicalDOFs", template="Rigid3", position="0 0 0 0 0 0 1  1 0 0 0 0 0 1  2 0 0 0 0 0 1", showObject="1")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('include', href="Objects/EdgeSetTopology.xml", src="@loader", template="Rigid3")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('MechanicalStateController', template="Rigid3", listening="true", mainDirection="-1.0 0.0 0.0", handleEventTriggersUpdate="true")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('FixedProjectiveConstraint', name="FixedProjectiveConstraint", indices="0")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('UniformMass', vertexMass="1 1 0.1 0 0 0 0.1 0 0 0 0.1", printLog="false")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('BeamFEMForceField', name="FEM", radius="0.1", youngModulus="50000000", poissonRatio=".49")

MechanicalStateControllerTranslation.scn

<Node name="root" dt="0.005" gravity="0 -10 0">
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Algorithm"/> <!-- Needed to use components [BVHNarrowPhase BruteForceBroadPhase CollisionPipeline] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Intersection"/> <!-- Needed to use components [LocalMinDistance] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Geometry"/> <!-- Needed to use components [LineCollisionModel PointCollisionModel TriangleCollisionModel] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Response.Contact"/> <!-- Needed to use components [CollisionResponse] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Controller"/> <!-- Needed to use components [MechanicalStateController] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.IO.Mesh"/> <!-- Needed to use components [MeshOBJLoader] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.LinearSolver.Iterative"/> <!-- Needed to use components [CGLinearSolver] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Mapping.NonLinear"/> <!-- Needed to use components [RigidMapping] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Mass"/> <!-- Needed to use components [UniformMass] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.ODESolver.Backward"/> <!-- Needed to use components [EulerImplicitSolver] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.StateContainer"/> <!-- Needed to use components [MechanicalObject] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Topology.Container.Constant"/> <!-- Needed to use components [MeshTopology] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.Component.Visual"/> <!-- Needed to use components [VisualStyle] -->
    <RequiredPlugin name="Sofa.GL.Component.Rendering3D"/> <!-- Needed to use components [OglModel] -->
    <VisualStyle displayFlags="showForceFields showCollisionModels" />
    <CollisionPipeline depth="6" verbose="0" draw="0" />
    <BruteForceBroadPhase/>
    <BVHNarrowPhase/>
    <LocalMinDistance name="Proximity" alarmDistance="1.0" contactDistance="0.5" />
    <CollisionResponse name="Response" response="PenalityContactForceField" />
    <Node name="InstrumentEdgeSet">
        <EulerImplicitSolver rayleighStiffness="0" printLog="false"  rayleighMass="0.1" />
        <CGLinearSolver iterations="100" threshold="0.00000001" tolerance="1e-5"/>
        <MechanicalObject template="Rigid3" />
        <UniformMass totalMass="1" />
        <Node name="Visu">
            <MeshOBJLoader name="meshLoader_0" filename="mesh/sphere.obj" scale="50" handleSeams="1" />
            <OglModel color="0.500 0.500 0.500" src="@meshLoader_0" name="Visual" />
            <RigidMapping input="@.." output="@Visual" />
        </Node>
        <Node name="Surf2">
            <MeshOBJLoader name="loader" filename="mesh/sphere.obj" />
            <MeshTopology src="@loader" />
            <MechanicalObject src="@loader" scale="50" />
            <TriangleCollisionModel />
            <LineCollisionModel />
            <PointCollisionModel />
            <RigidMapping />
        </Node>
        <MechanicalStateController template="Rigid3" onlyTranslation="true" listening="true" handleEventTriggersUpdate="true" />
    </Node>
</Node>
def createScene(root_node):

   root = root_node.addChild('root', dt="0.005", gravity="0 -10 0")

   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Algorithm")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Detection.Intersection")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Geometry")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Collision.Response.Contact")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Controller")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.IO.Mesh")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.LinearSolver.Iterative")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Mapping.NonLinear")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Mass")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.ODESolver.Backward")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.StateContainer")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Topology.Container.Constant")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.Component.Visual")
   root.addObject('RequiredPlugin', name="Sofa.GL.Component.Rendering3D")
   root.addObject('VisualStyle', displayFlags="showForceFields showCollisionModels")
   root.addObject('CollisionPipeline', depth="6", verbose="0", draw="0")
   root.addObject('BruteForceBroadPhase', )
   root.addObject('BVHNarrowPhase', )
   root.addObject('LocalMinDistance', name="Proximity", alarmDistance="1.0", contactDistance="0.5")
   root.addObject('CollisionResponse', name="Response", response="PenalityContactForceField")

   instrument_edge_set = root.addChild('InstrumentEdgeSet')

   instrument_edge_set.addObject('EulerImplicitSolver', rayleighStiffness="0", printLog="false", rayleighMass="0.1")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('CGLinearSolver', iterations="100", threshold="0.00000001", tolerance="1e-5")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('MechanicalObject', template="Rigid3")
   instrument_edge_set.addObject('UniformMass', totalMass="1")

   visu = InstrumentEdgeSet.addChild('Visu')

   visu.addObject('MeshOBJLoader', name="meshLoader_0", filename="mesh/sphere.obj", scale="50", handleSeams="1")
   visu.addObject('OglModel', color="0.500 0.500 0.500", src="@meshLoader_0", name="Visual")
   visu.addObject('RigidMapping', input="@..", output="@Visual")

   surf2 = InstrumentEdgeSet.addChild('Surf2')

   surf2.addObject('MeshOBJLoader', name="loader", filename="mesh/sphere.obj")
   surf2.addObject('MeshTopology', src="@loader")
   surf2.addObject('MechanicalObject', src="@loader", scale="50")
   surf2.addObject('TriangleCollisionModel', )
   surf2.addObject('LineCollisionModel', )
   surf2.addObject('PointCollisionModel', )
   surf2.addObject('RigidMapping', )

   instrument_edge_set.addObject('MechanicalStateController', template="Rigid3", onlyTranslation="true", listening="true", handleEventTriggersUpdate="true")