Kangaroo generates lines, but then they disappear!

Hi everyone,

Just building a simple catenary thingumy in Kangaroo, everything seems in order but when I press go, I just see a flicker of calculation and then my machine starts going very slow.

At first I thought that some lines might be breaking somehow, tried upping strengths, baking and then looking for it in the air but they seem to have completely vanished rather than just flying off into oblivion.

Is it the fact that I baked everything before I simulated and so the anchor points are not listed correctly or something (I didn't think that it made a difference in the kangaroo solver).

Can someone have a look for me?

Thanks (I still can't believe there are amazing people in this world that will help me with stuff like this!),

Will

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Permalink Reply by Will Stephens on March 19, 2017 at 5:35pm

Hello again everyone,

After going away from this and coming back with a fresh pair of eyes, I think this is a bug! There was a line that I hadn't quite trimmed up properly that was very tiny and causing kangaroo to delete the lines. When playing it back frame by frame on the animation solver, it appears that they disappeared radially from this 'bad' point.

Redrew that part of the grid manually and seems to be working fine.

If anyone wants to look at this, I was using Rhino for Mac, otherwise, moderators feel free to delete/lock this thread.

Cheers,

Will

Permalink Reply by ng5 Alex on March 19, 2017 at 6:07pm