Basic design decisions and interest

[bc0n]

What do you want in a Modelica animation tool?

The initial design is bare-bones: a post-simulation script taking the model and result files, producing an animation according to parameters.
Rigid bodies will use the same shape= field to specify the shape, though allowing more advanced files like glTF.
Initially, it will be restricted to models contained in a single file, as parsing a modelica package tree is tedious.
Animation will be performed by three.js, with an optional output of the three.js scene JSON.
The basic workflow will be an MIT-licensed Julia package, with translations into other languages given interest.

How you can help

Please reply with some basic information:

• what Modelica tool and scripting language do you prefer to use?
• what systems are you modeling, can you include an example link?
• and, because the wheels need to turn, is your use commercial?

Existing work:

• I wrote an module for MAT.jl to read Modelica v4 .mat files
• MeshCat.jl - focused on creating Three.js viewers from Julia processes
• Modia3D - not there yet, cannot handle kinematic loops
• ?