[ODE] How to define new joints

[Jaroslav Sinecky]

Hi,
your work around is perfectly reasonable and indeed very used one. Probably
you just can't give body zero mass, so better give it for example 10% of
mass of Part2 (and let Part2 have 90% of its original mass).

The fact is it's not very efficient way, if you want to try to implement new
joint, look here http://ode.org/joints.pdf

Jaroslav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ode-bounces at q12.org [mailto:ode-bounces at q12.org]On Behalf
> Of Thomas Paviot
> Sent: Tuesday, November 08, 2005 4:28 PM
> To: ode at q12.org
> Subject: [ODE] How to define new joints
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I would like to use a joint with 2 degrees of freedom (DOF) between two
> parts : a rotational and linear freedom along the same axis. It would be
> a kind of mix between a slider and an hinge joint. I'm new to ODE and
> didn't found any answer in the archive list or over the internet.
>
> I had an idea to go around the problem : define an new body, without
> mass paramters set to 0, and set an hinge joint between this body and
> part 1, and a slider joint between this body and Part 2. I think it's
> not very clean.
>
> Any idea or suggestion?
>
> Thomas
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