Create a new Pose for a TxComponent

[A-S-E]

I import a cojt in Process Simulate Standalone in order to create a kinematics for a component. The invocation of TxApplication.ActiveDocument.PhysicalRoot.InsertComponent gets me an instance of TxComponent.

The Class TxComponent implements the Interface ITxKinematicsModellable, that allows creation of the kinematic links and joints (TxKinematicLink and TxJoint). But I miss a possibility to create a pose (class TxPose) for a TxComponent.

I have found possibility to create a pose just for a device (Interface ITxDevice), but I cannot find any possibility to convert a TxComponent instance to ITxDevice.

It is possible to create a pose for imported component over the user interface, but .NET API does not expose this possibility.

Have I overseeing anypossibility?

[MarkusH · Accepted solution]

Hi,

it is not possible to create a Pose in a TxComponent.

You have to convert your component to a TxDevice.

That can be done after the joint creation.

TxComponent component = new TxComponent();
...
ITxDevice device = component.Joints[0].Device as ITxDevice;

[A-S-E]

Thank you!

I will test this.

[A-S-E]

It does the job for me.

It is not clearly evident way to get a device from a component over the a joint. May be the evident ppossibility can be exposed in the next version of .NET Api.

[TGSimulation]

Works for me.  I created 2 helper functions for the future:

    public static bool CanConvertComponentToDevice(TxComponent comp)
    {
        if (comp.Joints.Count > 0)
        { return true; }
        else
        { return false; }
    }

    public static ITxDevice GetDeviceFromComponent(TxComponent comp)
    { return comp.Joints[0].Device; }