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Sphere

Contactable sphere

	Description
	The Sphere element models a contactable sphere. The radius of the sphere is used as the uncompressed length, $L_{0}$ , in the contact force computation (for details, see Multibody Contact Modes).

Connections

Name	Description	Modelica ID
${frame}_{a}$	Center of sphere	frame_a
${port}_{a}$	Contact port	port_a

Parameters

Name	Default	Units	Description	Modelica ID
visualization	$false$		True means geometry is visible in playback	visualization
Color	$orange$		Color of the sphere	color
$R$	$0.1$	$m$	Radius	R

See Also

Multibody Contacts

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