Cables, wires and hoses

Deformable rack cable bundle

A deformable bundle of 8 to 24 copper or fiber cables held by straps, modeled as touching elastic rods with friction for robots that work inside a crowded server rack.

Also called cable loom, bundled cables, rack cabling or cable run.

Elastic rodCloth

Delivered as USD for NVIDIA Isaac Sim

Rack cable bundle, reference image

How is the deformable rack cable bundle modeled?

In a real rack the cable a robot needs is never alone: it runs in a bundle, pressed against its neighbors and held by straps. We model each cable in the bundle as its own elastic rod with its own stiffness, with contact and friction between them, so pulling one cable drags on the others and loosening a strap lets the bundle spread.

We build the bundle to a routing you give us or to a typical top of rack layout: cables leave the bundle at their ports, bend over the tray edge and run along the rack. Straps are cloth bodies wrapped around the bundle at their true spacing.

Which parts of the deformable rack cable bundle deform?

Cables
Separate rods that touch, slide and drag on each other
Straps
Cloth bands that hold the bundle and can be opened
Branch points
Where single cables leave the bundle for their ports

What ships in the USD?

One USD file per variant, with the render mesh, the simulation geometry and a physics material bound to it. Every value is set and named, so you can open it in NVIDIA Isaac Sim and run your task, or read the numbers into your own solver from the material JSON.

  • Elastic rod. A centerline curve with a radius, and stiffness in bending, twisting and stretching. Used for cables, wires, hoses and ropes.
  • Cloth. A triangle surface with stretch, shear and bending stiffness and a thickness. Used for towels, sheets and garments.

Where is it used?

  • Freeing one cable from a strapped bundle
  • Reconnecting a cable without disturbing its neighbors
  • Planning grasps in a crowded rack

Industries: Data centers

Questions

Can the bundle match the cabling in our rack?

Yes. Send us photos or a cabling plan and we set the cable count, types, lengths, strap positions and the ports each cable leaves for.

Which simulators does the deformable rack cable bundle open in?

It ships as USD for NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Newton. We also deliver MJCF for MuJoCo and Genesis, a GLB mesh, and a JSON file with every material value.

Can it be matched to our real object?

Yes. Send us a sample, a drawing or a few photos and we set size, stiffness and friction to match your part.

How do we get it?

Choose your simulator, format and variant, then tell us where to send it. We prepare the files and email them to you.

Pairs with

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Not in the catalog? We build any object to order, with the same physics and delivery.

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