3.1. Sofa

All SOFA key components supported by the SOFA consortium

Example

import Sofa.Core
import Sofa.Simulation
import SofaRuntime
SofaRuntime.importPlugin("Sofa.Component")

n = Sofa.Core.Node("MyNode")
n.addChild("Node2")
n.addObject("MechanicalObject", name="dofs")

Sofa.Simulation.init(n)
Sofa.Simulation.print(n)

Sub-modules

`Simulation`	Defines how the scene is inited at the beginning, and updated at each time step
`Core`	Contains the general object hierarchy and data structures
`Gui`	Controls the graphical user interface
`Helper`	Manages the message API
`Types`	Defines SOFA types (BoundingBox)
`SofaTypes`	Defines all DataTypes for vector and matrices (Vec and Mat)
`prefab`	Prefabs are python templates for a SOFA scene
`constants`	Constant library for an easier keyboard interaction.

Utility Functions

`msg_error`(target, message)	API emitting error messages
`msg_info`(target, message)	API emitting information messages
`msg_warning`(target, message)	API emitting warning messages
`msg_deprecated`(target, message)	API emitting deprecation messages

Additional modules

`SofaBaseTopology`	Implements some topology component (Regular and SparseGridTopology)
`SofaConstraintSolver`	Implements the solver for constraint problems
`SofaDeformable`	Implements linear springs between objects
`SofaGL`	Exposes the rendering API using OpenGL