MaplePrimes - MapleSim 2015 Posts and Questions

Two linked questions about printf and length commands

sand15 — Wed, 08 Mar 2017 08:30:19 Z

Hi everybody,

Neither of these questions is vital but answers will be greatly appreciated

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Question 1 :
Is it possible to manage programatically the character fonts in a printf command ?
(for instance to print some piece of text in bold font ... without selecting it and clicking the bold B of the toolbar)

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Question 2 :

In order to have a nice render, I use to create my own format for printf command. For instance, when I have to “printf” some text I usually compute its length L and my “printf” format constructor contains a command like MyFormat := cat(“%”, L, “a”)

Unfortunately the length(…) command seems to be sensitive to accented characters :
For people not familiar with french, "dégénéré" (note the acute accents) means "degenerate".
length(“dégénéré”) returns 12
length(“degenere”) returns 8
… which of course leads to a very inelegant render, which is all I wanted to avoid

Why does “length” behave this way ?
Is it possible to bypass this annoyance while ensuring “dégénéré” has length 8 ?

Thanks in advance

GetcompiledProc Error

anibalarbi — Wed, 26 Oct 2016 10:00:25 Z

Hello every one,

I'm using Maple to create a compiled program of my model Maplesim. I had a error with "getcompiledProc" command, which is :

Error, (in GetCompiledProc) non-numeric initial condition for `Main.RAB.value`(t): Float(undefined)

the "Main.RAB.value(t)" represent a probe used to visualize an output of my system.

Does anybody had a such error ?
Thank you for your responses.

Larbi ANIBA

Problem Installing Maplesim 2015

almarca — Wed, 12 Oct 2016 23:09:53 Z

Hi, after installing Maple 2015 I installed Maplesim 2015 but the following error comes up when trying to run Maplesim:

Java Virtual Machine Launcher

Could not find the main class:

com.maplesoft.application.Launcher. Program will exit

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

Why I am unable to see length of MapleSim rigid body frame?

onder — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 15:26:34 Z

Hi,

I am unable to see length of rigid body frame in MapleSim Examples - Physical Domain - Multibody - 5 DOF robot? Is there a way to see them?

Thanks

Onder

Invalid File Format

onder — Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:49:59 Z

Hi,

I am trying to download some MapleSim Robotic models from the Maplesoft website but I have 'Invalid File Format' error. Could you help please?

Best

Onder

How do I connect 3 arms to a single part with revolute joints?

Xolexo — Fri, 22 Jul 2016 14:46:38 Z

I have created a model for a robot in Solidworks and have imported it into Maplesim using the CAD toolbox. The problem I have is that the robot has 3 arms that are supposed to come together on a central piece pictured below in figure 1, but attempting to simulate the model with all arms connected with a revolute joint as in figure 2 yields an error that says "The system is underdetermined" the location of the error is main.

For the purposes of the image below I only connected one of the arms, this allows Maplesim to run the file successfully.

figure 1 showing the central piece that the 3 arms are supposed to connect to.

Figure 2 showing the problem revolute joints circled in black, the error at the bottom and the setting of the revolute joint on the right.

Essentially my question is how do I get the model to work? I apologise if this problem is not terribly well demonstrated, this is my first post onto this forum so I am not sure of all the standards.