SupportForces

Description

The following figure shows examples of components equipped witha support flange (framed flange in the lower center), which can be usedto fix components on the ground or on other moving elements or to combinethem with force elements. Via Boolean parameter useSupport, thesupport flange is enabled or disabled. If it is enabled, it must be connected.If it is disabled, it need not be connected.

Depending on the setting of useSupport, the icon of the correspondingcomponent is changing, to either show the support flange or a ground mounting.For example, the two implementations in the following figure giveidentical results.