EDEMpy particle properties

Manuel Cardenas_22117

Hi,

I am working with EDEMpy on ellipsoids and polyhedra. I am trying to retrieve particle properties for these shapes, but I cannot find any documentation on EDEMpy.

1. How can I obtain properties of the particles, such as nodes or orientation?
2. Regarding orientation, there is a function that returns the quaternion of the body, but it does not specify the reference point. For example, when dealing with a sphero-cylinder, what is the reference point of the quaternion? Is it a vector on the minor or major axis?

Cheers, 

MC

Stephen Cole

Hi MC,

The EDEM Help gives an introduction to EDEMpy and lists where to find the documentation:

https://help.altair.com/edem/topics/using_edem_py/edempy_c.htm

It references the specific EDEMpy help in:

C:\Program Files\Altair\<version number>\EDEM\EDEMpy\help\index.html

This is a useful getting started video:

EDEMpy YouTube

and tutorial:

edempy-setting-functions-tutorial

Regards

Stephen