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Cone

Contactable truncated cone

	Description
	The Cone element models a contactable truncated cone. The contactable surface is the side of the cone. The radius of the cone at the contact point is used as the uncompressed length, $L_{0}$ , in the contact force computation (for details, see Multibody Contact Modes).

Connections

Name	Description	Modelica ID
${frame}_{a}$	Location of one end of cone	frame_a
${frame}_{b}$	Location of other end of cone	frame_b
${port}_{a}$	Contact port	port_a

Parameters

Name	Default	Units	Description	Modelica ID
visualization	$false$		True means geometry is visible in playback	visualization
Color	$blue$		Color of the cone	color
$R_{a}$	$0.4$	$m$	Radius of the cone at frame_a.	Ra
$R_{b}$	$0.1$	$m$	Radius of the cone at frame_b.	Rb

See Also

Multibody Contacts

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