Links
Dec 12, 2014
Author: Michael Sherman
You have to build Simbody from source if you want it. You can build the Doxygen documentation too, but here is a link to pre-built Doxygen for the latest release. Replace "latest" in the URL with "previous" or a version like "3.3" for older documentation.
Simbody 2.2 Documentation
May 5, 2011
Author: Michael Sherman
Provides an introduction, installation instructions, and tutorials.
May 5, 2011
Author: Michael Sherman
Provides information and examples about programming custom forces, constraints, mobilizers (joints), and more.
Jan 1, 2010
Author: Michael Sherman
Introduction to Simbody's Vector and Matrix classes, including design rationale.
Technical Papers
Jun 6, 2011
Author: Michael Sherman
This paper is an overview of Simbody's architecture and implementation.
Sep 9, 2010
Author: Michael Sherman
This paper describes how Simbody efficiently formulates imperfect biological joints
Apr 4, 2006
Author: Michael Sherman
This is the primary reference for the NIH IVM module which served as the initial base for Simbody.
Apr 4, 2006
Author: Michael Sherman
This is reference 1 from Schwieters & Clore's paper. It is very helpful in understanding the notation used in the code.
Apr 4, 2006
Author: Michael Sherman
This is reference 2 from Schwieters & Clore's paper. It fills in a few details about the code that are not covered in reference 1, particularly regarding handling of closed topological loops.
Jul 7, 2006
Author: Michael Sherman
This is reference 13 from the IVM paper. It fills in the remaining details about constraint handling.