Subroutine Type

Utility/Data Access

Definition

Used to extract the number of rigid body contacts during the simulation

Use

This subroutine can be used to extract the number of active rigid body contacts in MotionSolve

Calling Syntax

Fortran

CALL GET_NCONTACTS(ID, I_GRA_ID, J_GRA_ID, NCONTACTS, ERRFLG)

C

c_get_ncontacts(id, i_gra_id, j_gra_id, ncontacts, errflg)

Python

[ncontacts, errflg] = py_get_ncontacts(id, i_gra_id, j_gra_id):

Input Arguments

[integer] ID

The ID of the contact force modeling element (Force_Contact in the XML) for which the results are desired.

[integer] I_GRA_ID

The ID of the I body’s graphic representation.

[integer] J_GRA_ID

The ID of the J body’s graphic representation.

Output Values

[integer] NCONTACTS

An integer value that represents the number of active contacts at the current time step.

[logical] ERRFLG

A value that is true if an error occurs during the call to GET_NCONTACTS

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