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Unit of Opensim

Posted: Tue Apr 26, 2016 6:05 am

by malavika

Hello,

I am facing some trouble with units while using Opensim, While its configured to Meters the contact locations and mass center locations seem to take in cm
My model graphics are made on Inventor and all dimensions are in mm
Is there a setting to change the Opensim units or to see the units its taking in for different parameters?

Thanks in advance

Re: Unit of Opensim

Posted: Thu May 05, 2016 8:08 am

by godfreap

When adding new bodies to your XML file for your model, you can set scale factors. Under <Body>, <VisibleObject>, <DisplayGeometry>, change the <scale_factors> value to reflect your unit conversion. So, for mm to cm, you change it so that the attribute looked like:

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<scale_factors> 10 10 10</scalefactors>

Re: Unit of Opensim

Posted: Tue May 17, 2016 12:30 pm

by jimmy

All length measurement are in meters, not cm.