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Newton 1.7 officially released: expanded simulation diagnostics and deformable coupling
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Following the v1.7.0rc2 release candidate, the Newton team released the v1.7.0 feature release (continuing from v1.6.1), expanding solver diagnostics, camera rendering, viewer interaction, and rigid/deformable body coupling workflows. Experimental features include composable solver diagnostic output, GRU actuator driving with ONNX checkpoint support, and particle-rigid body attachment; mimic joints now cover the Featherstone, SemiImplicit, XPBD, MuJoCo, and VBD solvers. This release includes migration changes: the MPM material scaling fix will change existing parameter tuning, requiring parameters such as mpm.young_modulus to be halved and retested; URDF damping and USD unit compatibility modes require adjustment per the migration notes; importing Torch checkpoints (.pt2, .pt, .pth) via USD assets now requires explicit enabling; the simulation stack is upgraded to MuJoCo 3.15. Regarding GPU support, CUDA 12 support is deprecated in 1.7: standard Warp 1.18 wheels require R580 series or newer drivers; on R545 to R579 drivers, warp-lang==1.17.0 must also be installed to retain GPU acceleration in this release.
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- Newton Physics Simulation Engine v1.7.0 Released · 1 reports
- Newton v1.7.0rc2 released: second release candidate expands simulation diagnostics and deformable coupling · 1 reports
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- Newton Physics Simulation Engine v1.7.0 Released
Newton has released the v1.7.0 feature version, expanding simulation diagnostics, camera rendering, viewer interaction, and rigid/deformable body coupling workflows. Experimental features include composable solver diagnostic output, GRU actuator driving (with ONNX checkpoint support), and particle-rigid body attachment; mimic joints now cover the Featherstone, SemiImplicit, XPBD, MuJoCo, and VBD solvers.
GitHub Robotics Topic ·
- Newton v1.7.0rc2 released: second release candidate expands simulation diagnostics and deformable coupling
Newton has released v1.7.0rc2, the second release candidate for Newton 1.7, expanding solver diagnostics, camera rendering, viewer interaction, and rigid/deformable body coupling workflows. The MPM material scaling fix changes existing tuning; parameters such as mpm.young_modulus must be halved and retested. URDF damping and USD unit compatibility modes must be adjusted according to the migration notes. The simulation stack is upgraded to MuJoCo 3.15, and CUDA 12 GPU support is deprecated in this version.
GitHub Robotics Topic ·