From the course: Grasshopper: Tips, Tricks, and Techniques

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PhysX.GH: Stability

PhysX.GH: Stability

- Welcome. In this video I want to look, at the physX plugin for grasshopper. physX is another physics simulator. This one uses the Nvidia physics library, a physX engine, and runs on the GPU. So the idea is you get a lot of speed benefits, and this focuses on solid body collisions. So I'm going to be using, the physX version 0.1, that was released in 2019. And remember that to download, a plugin from food4Rhino , you need to log in, and make sure once you've downloaded, the files that you unblock all of them, and physX will install with a whole bunch, of dependent libraries, DLL files, so you just copy them all, into a folder within your components folder. So I have the exercise file open already, and when I look at a plugin like this, the question that I have is, what can I use the simulation tool to answer. What types of questions can I answer, that I wouldn't be able to answer, simply by looking at a…

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