This release of Simbody includes a smoothed compliant contact model and a few bug fixes.
- The new SmoothSphereHalfSpaceForce provides a continuous and differentiable contact model, ideal for use with gradient-based optimization algorithms (PR #667).
- Fixes a memory issue with CPodes (PR #642).
- The new CMake variable
INSTALL_DOCS
controls whether docs are installed (PR #655). - Fixes a bug with calculating constraint acceleration errors (PR #670).
- Fixes
Pathname::getThisExecutablePath()
for FreeBSD (PR #672). - Fixes simbody-visualizer on macOS 10.15 Catalina when using high-DPI screens. Now, simbody-visualizer is an app bundle (simbody-visualizer.app) on Mac (PR #676).