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cnfsub loci and locj

Hello,

I'm trying to build a subroutine for a custom contact normal force. I require the locations of the contact so I wanted to utilize the loci, locj variables but every time print their information they seem to be completely off. To elaborate:

I have set up a model with a contact taking place around the location of -100,0,0. I've built a subroutine that prints out the loci, locj arrays from matlab but instead of printing something like

[-100, 0, 0 (+-some small percentage due to the contact incidents)]

the numbers are completely off.

Does Adams measure the locations from a starting point other than the global (0,0,0)? Or am I perhaps interpreting the loci, locj vectors wrong?

Thanks,

Josef K.

0 Jesper Slattengren over 4 years ago

Where are the i and j parts located at the time of incident? I would assume that loci and locj are expressed in local coordinates for the parts. Otherwise there would be no reason to have both loci and locj as in global coordinates they should be the same.
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0 Josef K. over 4 years ago

Hello,

This may be a possibility

I assume that local coordinates are measured from a body's CG. One of the loci coordinates however is -1900 (on a body of a total length of 1000 mm in the same direction and its CG in its center i.e., 500 mm on either side). So this should not be possible really.

The contact force appears on a different position in the model so I tried measuring from there but the numbers till don't add up.
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0 Jesper Slattengren over 4 years ago

Come on now. CG? That changes all the time during building of a model.

They are measured from the LPRF (local part reference frame), i.e. the definition of the part (Right click on a part in View and select 'info' and you will see that each part has a location and orientation, that is the LPRF)
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0 Josef K. over 4 years ago

Right, sorry.

All the parts have (0,0,0) as a location. So it would still not add up. I 'look further into it.

Thanks!
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0 MK202610123211 over 4 years ago

The msc example cnfsub clearly states

C LOCI contact point location on I in I coordinates

C LOCJ contact point location on J in J coordinates

But it doesn't clearly state what "I" or"J" is.

Jesper was assuming that it's I/J part LPRF because that's almost always the case.

But when having a look on the contact statements, it's geometry that is fed into the contact statement.

So I dare to guess that "I" or "J" may also be the geometry like a circle, box, sphere, plane or whatever.

And these may have "different" locations than the part they belong to and this may explain the strange values you see ?
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