Hi,
Thanks for the suggestions. Actually the figure size is so large that
it couldn’t fit in the window. When i scaled the figure it worked fine.
Regards,
Kiran
Quoting AnyBody Support <support@anybodytech.com>:
> Hi Kiran
>
> The muscles can not wrap directly on an .stl or .anysruf file, this
> is why they penetrate through the bone. The .stl and .anysurf files
> are purely for graphics. If you want the muscle to wrap on the
> surface you have to create either spheres, ellipsoids or cylinders
> which the muscle can wrap on. These surfaces you have to fit
> manually to bone surface to represented its surface.
>
> When having created the surfaces using AnySurfEllipsoid,
> AnySurfCylinder or AnySrufSphere you have to create a
> AnyShortestPathMuscles which refers to these surfaces. It will then
> find the shortest path around these surfaces.
>
> Please have a look in the body repository file “Arm3D/Muscles.any”
> to see how it can be done.
> You may also look at the file “MomentArmMeasure.any”, in the file
> section on this yahoo group. It is a small example about how to
> measure momentarms but it also shows how to make a
> AnyShortestPathMuscle wrap a cylinder.
>
> I do not understand that the AnySurf file you have created did not
> display. If you have made a naming mistake the system will tell that
>
> it can not find the file. Did you notice if AnyBody wrote that it
> was converting the file? it should write this when it converts the
> file. Please check that the size of the .stl and .anysurf file are
> not too different this would indicate that something went wrong in
> the converting process.
>
> It could also be that the Transparency has been set to 0 this would
> make the bone invisible
>
> These next lines is just an example on how to draw an .anysurf
>
> AnyDrawSurf DrwSurf = {
> FileName = “Ulna_bone”;
> RGB ={0,0,1};
> };
> Please notice that the filename uses no extension when it is
> an .anysurf.
>
> I hope this helps solving your problems otherswise please do not
> hesitate to ask again.
>
> Best regards
> AnyBody support
>
>
>
> — In anyscript@yahoogroups.com, ksk5@b… wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am facing little problems withSTL files in AnyBody. I a
> musinf STL
> > files to represent the bony surfaces. I have attached muscles to
> these
> > bones. These muscles are created in such a way that they are
> penetrating
> > through the bones and no errors are being showed in the analysis.
> So I
> > thought that these STL files are not being realized as bones by
> the
> > software. I thought by converting them into anysurf files, these
> problem
> > may be solved. So, when i used “AnySurfSTL” function with STL
> file, it
> > converted the STL file into ANYSURF file, but it din’t display the
>
> bone
> > in model window. later i tried using the newly created “ANYSURF”
> file
> > instead of STL file, but in vain. Can anyone please tell me
> >
> > 1. Why the STL file is not recognized as a bone?
> > 2. Why the model window is not showing the anysurf file as well,
> > eventhough there are no warnings?
> >
> > Thank you
> >
> > kiran
> >
> >
> > Kiran S Konakanchi
> > Graduate Student
> > Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
> > State University of NewYork at Buffalo
> > 1022 Furnas Hall
>
>
>
>
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Kiran S Konakanchi
Graduate Student
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
State University of NewYork at Buffalo
1022 Furnas Hall