[SOLVED] Running SOFA from the terminal

[Simit]

Hello,

Is there a way to run SOFA animation from the terminal itself instead of having to click on the Animate button in the GUI? I want to run some experiments on my model and collect the data from the simulations in a text file. It would be nice if I can make this call to SOFA animation through the terminal in my workflow.

Regards,
Simit

[Scheikl]

Hi Simit,
you can pass additional arguments to the runSofa binary.
runSofa --help gives you a detailed list of possible options.

Directly running a simulation can be done with
./runSofa -a 1 /path/to/scene/file

Cheers,
Paul

[Simit]

Hi Paul,

Thanks a lot for your response. The runSofa --help cleared up a lot of my queries. Feels like a rookie mistake not looking at the help.

However, the -a 1 flag didn’t work for me as long as I was using the GUI. When I used the -g batch flag, I could see that the animation runs by itself. I am using the pre-compiled binary of SOFA. Do you think there might be some limitations of the commandline args in the binary version?

Cheers,
Simit

[Hugo]

hey @psimit

Not different would be to expect between the binary and the compiled-from-sources version.

Indeed the -a 1 comment is overwritten by the boolean “animate” Data of the root node when you are using the GUI, I guess.

Best,

Hugo

[Simit]

Hey @hugo,

Thanks for the reply. That addresses my query.

Cheers,
Simit

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