Hi Christoph

It worked just fine, and I had no problem with instability, and the result,
altought boring, is not too far from reality.

Philippe


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> Your collision stiffness is simply way too low (and combined with a high
> damping).  Increasing it to something like 1e6 (or alternatively strongly
> decreasing the masses) will help (but you will have to be careful with the
> simulation stepping to avoid instability).  None the less you will
> probably have problems getting the results you intend - this kind of
> pendulum is very bad to simulate since in the real world the masses
> experience very high accelerations.
>
> Christoph
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