REQUEST: Controlled Joints over TCP

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Hi.

Thanks for bringing sketchyphysics to the world.
It works great even over linux.

I would like to request a very tiny feature for Robotics use.
Robotics at the university requires only to control a couple of variables in a 
3D 
world being calculated with an special mathematical software like matlab.

If you make it possible to control the joints variables over TCP we can use 
sketchup for robotics simulation. I think on SCARA type of robots and so on.

Also with a file listing the values would be good to animate the simulation.

Thanks.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by jacobidi...@gmail.com on 30 Apr 2010 at 1:57

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I agree with this request. Being able to control joint position from an 
external application via tcp/ip, serial, or activeX would be perfect 

Original comment by shred...@gmail.com on 1 Aug 2010 at 9:50

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I agree with this request. I want to simulate a robot over tcp/ip.

Original comment by moettlin...@googlemail.com on 19 Aug 2010 at 3:36

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That would indeed be awesome! 
(working on a modular robot design)

-lance

Original comment by i...@compas-sys.nl on 27 Nov 2010 at 9:47

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This should be very doable. All the source for the RUBY side is included with 
the distribution. You can just add some code to read data from any source you 
want in the controller.rb code and set the variables yourself.  Or just hack 
the joystick.rb file and provide a data stream that looks like joystick 
controls. That's the beauty of the ruby interface to Sketchup - you can try 
almost anything you want!

Original comment by kwill...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2012 at 2:21