Posts made by plgiorgi

Hi all,
is there a way to simulate and set Material parameters (like friction and elasticity) in SU/SP3? My goal is to simulate rovers behaviours with respect to various 'planetary surfaces' environments (e.g. Mars, Moon) and scenarios (slopes, obstacles, etc.).
Thanks in advance.

Thanks for your quick response. What I'm looking for is a method to use SP as a physics 'playground' in order to reproduce robotics movements that are simulated with a inverse kinematics solver tool that we are using at office. The idea is to send joints data (frame by frame, if possible in real time) from the robotic tool, via UDP socket, to SketchUp/SP in order to reproduce the same motions but in a physics-related environment, like SP is. I'm not an expert in programming so I've encountered (immediately) some problems trying Ruby interface in SU. For example, writing a command like

require 'socket'

in the SU's Ruby console text field, give me the error: ... No such file to load ...
I've just installed a Ruby distribution on my Windows computer but it seems to be not sufficient ... or done in the wrong way ...
Do I have to set some environment variables to complete my Ruby installation? Or may be SU's Ruby interface doesn't support all Ruby functionalities?

Thanks

Hi all and best compliments for the great job in this forum,
in order to simulate robotic arm's movements, how can I drive each joint in SP using joint's data coming from an external program? I means with a Ruby script that send this data to the simulated arm in SP.

Thanks in advance and sorry for my poor english,
Gigi