Description

Snaps a named node to a position and/or rotation formed by a rigid body defined from the currently selected nodes.

Use snapToRigid when you need to constrain a node to a location defined by a rigid body operation.

If neither option for allTime or ranges is used, then the operation will affect the current frame only.

The units for the -absolute option are millimeters.

Values for the default relative option are a percentage of the distance from the first selected node to the second selected node.

Use of the -positionOnly option prevents rigid body rotations from being applied to the target node. This option can be useful when you want to snap an object, like a baseball bat to a new location while maintaining the rotational orientation of the bat.

snapToRigid is different from snapToSystem and snapToSystemAlign in that snapToRigid defines a rigid body out of the selected markers and uses its coordinate system. The rigid body is defined at a frame the command determines. snapToSystem and snapToSystemAlgin do not use a rigid body, they refine the coordinate system at each frame.

Functional area

Snap

Command syntax

Syntax

snapToRigid "targetNodeName" xOffset yOffset zOffset [-allTime] [-ranges] [-absolute] [-positionOnly]

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Arguments

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Name	Type	Required	Comments
`zOffset`	float	yes	Specifies the position offset to apply to the object being snapped on the Z axis of the space defined by the selected markers.
`yOffset`	float	yes	Specifies the position offset to apply to the object being snapped on the Y axis of the space defined by the selected markers.
`xOffset`	float	yes	Specifies the position offset to apply to the object being snapped on the X axis of the space defined by the selected markers.
`targetNodeName`	string	yes	Name of the node that will be snapped.

Flags

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Name	Argument type	Exclusive to	Comments
`all time`	—	ranges	Performs the snap over the entire animation range.
`positionOnly`	—	rotationOnly	Only modifies the position of the node being snapped.
`rotationOnly`	—	positionOnly	Only modifies the rotation of the node being snapped.
`absolute`	—	—	Specifies the offset is in mm rather then a percentage of the distance between the first two nodes that define the system.
`ranges`	—	allTime	Performs the snap over the selected time ranges.

Return value

void

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Examples

// This sequence of commands will create a new Marker node
// and snap its position over all time to a position offset by
// the indicated number of millimeters ( -50 in X, 50 in Y, 
// and 50 in Z) calculated from the origin of a temporary rigid
// body created from LFWT, LMWT, and LBWT. The offset is applied
// in the local coordinate system of the temporary rigid body.
// The rigid body coordinate system is then expressed in rotations
// relative to world space and applied to the target node,
// snapRigidTest.
create Marker snapRigidTest;
select LFWT LMWT LBWT;
snapToRigid -allTime -absolute snapRigidTest -50 50 50;

Additional information

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