rigid body dynamics

[roambotics_scott]

I'm not sure how many people will have a use for this but for us it'd be extremely useful to be able to quickly setup rigid body simulations (including gravity). Even better would be a simple way to script actuators or to connect those and sensors to an external program.

[Dunndor]

just learn how to do it in maya and import the stl

[roambotics_scott]

Sure.. except .STLs don't contain material or joint information or real physics and not everybody has Maya (and even if they get it, it's a totally different UI/UX and it's focused on making movies and not doing engineering).

[promm]

Thank you for idea - this is getting archived due to lack of votes.

[roambotics_scott]

Well that's depressing.

[bryan_mcnatt]

I'm disappointed/frustrated/angered by the fact that an older idea would get "archived", preventing it from getting more votes now as the software is more fully developed and is being used by a wider audience.

With the addition of Simulation to Fusion 360, it's a great next-step idea to add Rigid Body Dynamics.  I will submit a new idea myself to try to get this rolling again.

[roambotics_scott]

Thanks, @bryan_mcnatt. You'll have my vote

There are a lot of things I find annoying about the Ideastation (not least of which is that these things seem completely arbitrary and people treat their votes like they're made of a stable superheavy element )

Rigid body dynamics seem like such a no-brainer, especially compared with most of the stuff in simulation. It's something with immediate connection to reality, and that doesn't require deep knowledge and understanding of simulations to be useful

[JRKuyper]

If we need more support...

Please read http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/ideastation-request-a-feature-or/rigid-body-solver/idi-p/6550371#comme... Up vote if you agree.  Lets gather support before it gets archived.