Patent ID: 11886174
Assignee: DASSAULT SYSTEMES AMERICAS CORP.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. The method of claim 11 wherein simulating the cable for the next time step includes:
updating the polyline model; and
performing the simulation of the cable for the next time step by:
computing the forces on each point of the collection of points for the next time step using: (a) the associated point mass, (b) the associated zero mass sphere, (c) the assigned elasticity and torsional stiffness between the point and adjacent points, and (d) the updated polyline model; and
determining position in three dimensional space of each point of the collection of points representing the cable at an end of the next time step based on the forces computed using the updated polyline model.