How to convert Bounded Contacts into Fixed Joints?

Milan

I have grouped Bonded contacts as follows:

I want to use scripting to change their contact types into Fixed joints, how do I do that ?

Milan

Here is an example of script that suppresses all the contacts of the group "Contacts_to_change" and that creates another group with Fixed Joints contacts scoped with corresponding source/target faces.

See example code below:

bonded_contact_group=DataModel.GetObjectsByName("Contacts_to_change")[0]

my_bonded_contact_source_faces=[]

my_bonded_contact_target_faces=[]

fixed_joint_group=Model.Connections.AddConnectionGroup()

fixed_joint_group.Name="Contacts_changed"

for contact in bounded_contact_group.Children:

 
  my_bonded_contact_source_face=contact.SourceLocation

  my_bonded_contact_target_face=contact.TargetLocation

  my_bonded_contact_source_faces.append(contact.SourceLocation)

  my_bonded_contact_target_faces.append(contact.TargetLocation)



  my_fixed_joint=fixed_joint_group.AddJoint()

  my_fixed_joint.ReferenceLocation=my_bounded_contact_source_face

  my_fixed_joint.MobileLocation=my_bounded_contact_target_face


  
  contact.Suppressed = True

We can check that the contacts have been converted:

You may also want to create another script that reverses the action:

bounded_contact_group=DataModel.GetObjectsByName("Contacts_to_change")[0]

for contact in bounded_contact_group.Children:

    contact.Suppressed = False



fixed_joint_group=DataModel.GetObjectsByName("Contacts_changed")[0]

fixed_joint_group.Delete()