Visualization of contact in analyst

Raheem Sterling_22160
Raheem Sterling_22160 Altair Community Member
edited July 2023 in Community Q&A

Hi,

In the Analyst Tree-contact, what is the measure of the thickness of a cylinder,for example, when the contact is visualized by bondstatus, the thickness of cylinder will change sometimes.

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  • Stephen Cole
    Stephen Cole
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2023

    Hi Raheem,

    Contacts by default are displayed scaled by contact vector, contact between two large particles would be greater than the one between two smaller particles if you have a size distribution.

    There are other contact display attributes which are shown in the help (Display Contact Subsection)

    EDEM Help


    Regards
    Stephen

  • Raheem Sterling_22160
    Raheem Sterling_22160 Altair Community Member
    edited July 2023
    Stephen Cole_21117 said:

    Hi Raheem,

    Contacts by default are displayed scaled by contact vector, contact between two large particles would be greater than the one between two smaller particles if you have a size distribution.

    There are other contact display attributes which are shown in the help (Display Contact Subsection)

    EDEM Help


    Regards
    Stephen

    Hi Stephen,

    That's why I am confused, the contact is bondstatus I defined in the api like Bondv2, but it shows the differnet thickness as figure shows.image

  • Stephen Cole
    Stephen Cole
    Altair Employee
    edited July 2023
    Raheem Sterling_22160 said:

    Hi Stephen,

    That's why I am confused, the contact is bondstatus I defined in the api like Bondv2, but it shows the differnet thickness as figure shows.image

    Hi Raheem, 

    Are the contacts scaled by another value, like Normal Force?  In your screenshot the attribute scaled should be shown just out of sight, above the colour by options.


    Regards

    Stephen

  • Raheem Sterling_22160
    Raheem Sterling_22160 Altair Community Member
    edited July 2023
    Stephen Cole_21117 said:

    Hi Raheem, 

    Are the contacts scaled by another value, like Normal Force?  In your screenshot the attribute scaled should be shown just out of sight, above the colour by options.


    Regards

    Stephen

    Hi Stephen,

    The contacts is the custom property value of m_bondstatus, I only used the m_bondstatusdelta to assign the value. I am trying to debug it. Thanks.

    By the way, when I debugged the code with three particles'(type as "right","middle" and "left") system, for element1.issphere was always false, and element1.type,even without geometry.

     image

    Regards!

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