Chrono::R3D Tutorials, lessons, educational video

In this page you will find useful tutorials which help you to understand the basic features of Chrono::R3D.

These AVI screen recordings show how an user can use the interactive Chrono::R3D tools within the Realsoft3D environment.

NOTE: YOU NEED THE DIVX CODEC TO SEE THESE AVI FILES. If you do not have DivX installed, you can download it here.

This screen recording shows how to build a slider-crank mechanism. The geometrical representation is intentionally simplificated, so that you can focus on the important steps: how to use the Link and Motor tool. Also note how you can move the Marker objects, used to set references for links.

This screen recording shows how an user can load a Chrono::R3D demo project from the 'chrono\examples' directory and use it. In detail, it is a model of a car with four wheels with spring-damper suspensions. Chrono::Engine has been used to model the mechanisms of the suspensions and the steer linkages. A motor is acting on the rear axle, and a brake is acting (for simplicity) on the front wheels only. Wheels are simulated with four cylinders, with collision detection = ON, so they can react also with the unevenness of the terrain (simulated with some misplaced white cubes). To allow the user to play with the car interactively, we created a floating window with the R3D GUI editing tools, and dropped three sliders into it. Each slider has been configured to modify a Javascript variable. In the meantime, also brake, steer and motor parameters have been configured to match these javascript variables. When the user loads the example (see the anim) it can open that panel and play with the three sliders: he drives the car! Remember: to start man-in-the-loop realtime animation, the 'play' button on the bottom right of the screen must be pressed. Also, remember that the number of simulated frames must be high. Side note: on recent computers, this simulation may run even faster than real-time: if so, to improve realism, turn on the 'Real time' flag in the Animation settings panel.

A conveyor belt is built, by replicating multiple times a motorized cylinder. The motors rotate with a speed set by a variable 'myspeed', which can be set either in scripting window (using the Chrono-javascript language) or using a Control GUI component, as shown in this example. Note that collision has been turned ON for cylinders ant the moving box.

Remember to look also the animations in the Chrono::R3D gallery page!