Moving Path Point

[Maria Cordero]

Hello,

I've been trying to implement Moving Path Points in my model through Matlab, but haven't been able to, despite checking the documentation. I noticed that for the other kinds of AbstractPathPoints, I can set them up to a Geometry Path through a addPathPoint/AddPathWrap command. Is there something similar to implement them, or is the object not supported anymore?

Thank you,
Maria C.

[Nicholas Bianco]

Hi Maria,

If you could provide a minimum working example that reproduces the errors that you are encountering, along with the error messages, then we can assist with debugging your issue.

Best,
Nick

[Maria Cordero]

Hi Nicholas,

Thank you for your reply. For normal PathPoints, I've been adding them with addNewPathPoint, as seen in the following lines, but I haven't found a command that lets me do the same for MovingPathPoint. I was able to set them up, but not attach them to the Muscle.

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LatissimusDorsi_S.addNewPathPoint('LatDorsiSOrigin', thorax, Vec3(-0.1008796560238172, -0.11663128441390257, 0.0017099582619030595));
LatissimusDorsi_S.addNewPathPoint('LatDorsiSInsertion', thorax, Vec3(-0.10767983506326086, -0.20544206978291463, 0.026229399594655183));
LatissimusDorsi_S.addNewPathPoint('LatDorsiSInsertion5', humerus, Vec3(0.0058799957641284184, -0.019040131776404189, -0.0034499858058475164));

%MOVING POINT
LatDorsiSOMPP = MovingPathPoint();
LatDorsiSOMPP.connectSocket_parent_frame(thorax);
LatDorsiSOMPP.connectSocket_x_coordinate(shoulder_elv);
LatDorsiSOMPP.connectSocket_y_coordinate(shoulder_elv);
LatDorsiSOMPP.connectSocket_z_coordinate(shoulder_elv);
model.finalizeConnections();

Thank you.

Best regards,
Maria C.

[Nicholas Bianco]

Hi Maria,

I see. Yes, unfortunately we do not have a method similar to addNewPathPoint for MovingPathPoints in Muscle. However, since you've already constructed the MovingPathPoint yourself, you should be able to add it to the model by updating the muscle path's PathPointSet:

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pathPointSet = LatissimusDorsi_S.updGeometryPath().updPathPointSet();
numPathPoints = pathPointSet.getSize();
pathPointSet.insert(numPathPoints, LatDorsiSOMPP);

You might need to modify that code snippet to make it work, but that should be the gist.

Best,
Nick