This is I think a simplification of what I ultimately want, but it’s where I would start… Say that in 2D I have a box, a beam(except ultimately not of straight section) that I want to push and pull from one end while somewhere else along it is a fixed “pin” (I show a cylinder section but it can be a single point) on which it rests and will slide. Can this be done? Imagining paths and constraints it sounds like it’s just a rearranging of things I’ve done before…
I can’t find a way to do this. Certainly, the second constraint is going to be impossible.
This is the kind of problem that is best solved by physical simulation - there are no mechanical joints here.
A piece of cake actually. The answer lies in simple geometry: “If a line is tangent to a circle, then a radius drawn to the point of contact is perpendicular to the tangent at that precise point”. Bongo has the tools.
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A curved beam however indeed seems a bridge to far.