Tim McMurdo wrote:
> I am attempting to have a sail interact with a rope that is in front of it.
> When the sail billows out, I want it to press against the rope and billow
> around it. I have tried several sets of settings to no avail. The sail just
> billows through the rope and does not form around it.

First: wrong group, followup set.

> The sail is created with MechSim and is a 50x50 mesh. The rope is an Iso CSG
> cylinder.
> 
> 1. Could the spacing on the masses in the mesh affect this? If the spacing
> on the masses prevents a sail mass from colliding with the rope?

Partly - only the masses are checked for collision with the environment 
so the 'rope' has to be considerably thicker than the distance between 
the masses in the sail.

> 3. Would I be better off creating the rope with masses and connections?

Probably, having the rope as a 'line' and the sail as a 'patch' will 
make them interact correctly if you turn on mass-face-collisions.

> 4. Should the sail and each rope be placed in its own group?

This would make collision tests much faster.

Christoph

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