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Re: [ATM] Help Examine the PLOP output
On 10/17/07, Mark Holm <mdholm@telerama.com> wrote:
> As you can see from the figure, the "cg" of the bars is not in the
> middle. I don't recall whether Plop reports the longer or shorter
> length as the distance of the "cg".
As far as I understand PLOP the center of gravity (CG) info only
relates to the cell part displayed.If using equal forces, then the CG
of each hinge is exactly at its middle, and for each triangle the CG
is exactly at its geometric center of gravity.
One thing to note is that PLOP has a powerful way of describing
symmetrical cells. For example, a repeating pattern can be compressed
by telling PLOP to repeat the same pattern a number of times. This
will only display the part dimensions once for a given part that may
be used more than once in the cell.
Best regards,
Olivier
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