Using Kangaroo solver inside a cluster component

[Yitzchak_Vaknin]

Hello,

I’m trying to use kangaroo’s default solver/BouncySolver inside a cluster component (the solver is on the canvas) but it stops working after several iterations.

I can’t use zombie solver and I saw this question:

"Live" Kangaroo solver in cluster

Hi all, Is it possible to have a running Kangaroo2 solver inside a cluster? Everything works well inside the cluster, but from the outside it seems to stop after only performing the first iteration. (Motivation: I have a large and complicated interactive form-finding routine involving Kangaroo, which I would like to use in several places across the canvas.) The workaround I’m using now is attaching a Timer component which continually expires the entire cluster – but this runs much (10x) slowe…

Is there another way I can use those solvers inside a cluster and preview the geometry in live?

Thanks,
-Y

[DanielPiker]

Hi @Yitzchak_Vaknin

Can you explain a bit more about how you want to use this, and why you can’t use the zombie solver?
The way cluster solving works doesn’t really fit with showing live iterative updates like the default/bouncy solver.

[Yitzchak_Vaknin]

Hello @DanielPiker

I want the iterative updates but I assume according to you answer that I can’t make it with cluster components…

Thank you anyway!