slicing soild geometry into two

Hi

I am using simscape multibody.

I want to simualte cutting of a object. Can someone point me to resources where to start ?

Answer 1

[Vasco Lenzi]

Hi Chetan

From Release 2019b you can disengage joints. So you can "glue" together two solid with a Weld Joint, and then during simulation you can disengage it using a signal switching from 0 to -1, and the joint becomes a 6 DoF joints. This would mimick "slicing" a solid in two, with the two solids disengaging. I'm attaching one example (for 2020a release).

hope this helps

Vasco

[chetan thakur]

@vasco lenzi

Thanks for answering. Tried the model you have provided. It worked as expected.

From this what I observed, we can engage/disengage only one using step signal which is valid.

Thanks

-Chetan