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Does anyone still use interface parts with mass?

greg.wheeler
greg.wheeler over 4 years ago
In the distant past, Car models could define flexbody interface parts with mass properties. There's no user interface for such a use case, so we're considering dropping support for these in the subsystem file.
 
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    0 greg.wheeler over 4 years ago
    If you had an old subsystem file with interface part mass properties specified, like this:
     
    [INTERFACE_PART]
     USAGE = 'lca_front'
     SYMMETRY = 'left'
     MASS = 0.35
     IXX = 0.001
     IYY = 0.001
     IZZ = 0.001
     IXY = 0.001
     IZX = 0.001
     IYZ = 0.001
     
    this block would be ignored, and the interface part would have zero mass and inertia.
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    0 greg.wheeler over 4 years ago
    If you had an old subsystem file with interface part mass properties specified, like this:
     
    [INTERFACE_PART]
     USAGE = 'lca_front'
     SYMMETRY = 'left'
     MASS = 0.35
     IXX = 0.001
     IYY = 0.001
     IZZ = 0.001
     IXY = 0.001
     IZX = 0.001
     IYZ = 0.001
     
    this block would be ignored, and the interface part would have zero mass and inertia.
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