opensim-creator

A UI for building OpenSim models

https://github.com/computationalbiomechanicslab/opensim-creator

Science Score: 49.0%

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Keywords

biomechanics opensim physics-simulation

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Repository

A UI for building OpenSim models

Basic Info

Host: GitHub
Owner: ComputationalBiomechanicsLab
License: apache-2.0
Language: C++
Default Branch: main
Homepage: https://opensimcreator.com
Size: 395 MB

Statistics

Stars: 189
Watchers: 15
Forks: 24
Open Issues: 125
Releases: 42

Topics

biomechanics opensim physics-simulation

Created almost 5 years ago · Last pushed 6 months ago

Metadata Files

Readme Changelog License Code of conduct Citation Codemeta Notice

OpenSim Creator

A UI for building OpenSim models

Want to download it? Download the latest release here
Want to install it? It's explained in the documentation
Want to learn the basics? View the documentation online
Want to cite the project? See the citation section of this README
Want to know more about the project? See www.opensimcreator.com
Have a question? Go to the discussions page
Found a bug or want to request a feature? Post it on the issues page
Want to build it from source? There's a development section in the documentation
Want to contribute to it? There's a contribution section in the documentation

Overview

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OpenSim Creator (osc) is a standalone UI for building and editing OpenSim models. It's available as a freestanding all-in-one installer for Windows 10 (>= 1507), MacOS (>= 14.5, Sonoma), and Ubuntu (>= 22.04, Jammy Jellyfish).

osc started development in 2021 in the Biomechanical Engineering department at TU Delft. Architecturally, osc is a C++ codebase that is directly integrated against the OpenSim core C++ API. It otherwise only uses lightweight open-source libraries that can easily be built from source (e.g. SDL) to implement the UI on all target platforms. This makes osc fairly easy to build, integrate, and package.

Citing/Acknowledging

OpenSim Creator doesn't have a central written software publication that you can cite (yet ). However, if you need to directly cite OpenSim Creator (e.g. because you think it's relevant that you built a model with it), the closest thing you can use is our DOI-ed Zenodo releases (metadata available in this repo: CITATION.cff/codemeta.json):

Kewley, A., Beesel, J., & Seth, A. (2025). OpenSim Creator (0.5.25). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15882091

If you need a general citation for the simulation/modelling technique, you can directly cite OpenSim via this paper:

Seth A, Hicks JL, Uchida TK, Habib A, Dembia CL, et al. (2018) OpenSim: Simulating musculoskeletal dynamics and neuromuscular control to study human and animal movement. PLOS Computational Biology 14(7): e1006223. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006223

Sustainability, Archiving, and Mirrors

We have taken the following steps to ensure that you can always access, build, and use every release of OpenSim Creator:

OSC's central repository is public access and hosted at https://github.com/ComputationalBiomechanicsLab/opensim-creator
During a release, we:
- Mirror the central repository to https://gitlab.tudelft.nl/computationalbiomechanicslab/opensim-creator
- Upload a snapshot of the release's source code to Zenodo (see citing section, above).
- Upload a snapshot of the release's source code and binaries to https://files.opensimcreator.com/releases/
Each release of OSC's source code is permissively licensed, verified to be compile-able via gcc, clang, and MSVC with many warnings/lints enabled to ensure the source code has a strong chance of being compile-able far in the future as architectures, operating systems, and compilers evolve.
The project includes all of its library dependencies in-tree. It doesn't use git submodules, internet downloads, or package managers. This means that everything that's needed to build OpenSimCreator (apart from widely-available compiler toolchains) is available in this repository and not dependent on external services that might change over time.

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to OpenSim Creator then thank you : it's people like you that make open-source awesome! Please consult the contribution section in the official documentation. The development section of the documentation also outlines how to build the project from source!

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative which currently funds OpenSim Creator's development through the "Essential Open Source Software for Science" grant scheme (Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, 2020-218896 (5022)).

We would also like to thank the Department of Biomechanical Engineering at TU Delft, which has provided the necessary institutional support required to keep OpenSim Creator's development supported and stable.

Project Sponsors
Biomechanical Engineering at TU Delft	Chan Zuckerberg Initiative

Finally, we would also like to thank the wider open-source community. OpenSim Creator wouldn't be possible without using and learning from high-quality open-source libraries and technical literature from thousands of contributors.

Owner

Name: Computational Biomechanics Lab @ TUDelft
Login: ComputationalBiomechanicsLab
Kind: organization

Repositories: 4
Profile: https://github.com/ComputationalBiomechanicsLab

JOSS Publication

OpenSim Creator: An Interactive User Interface for Building OpenSim Musculoskeletal Models

Published

January 09, 2026

DOI

10.21105/joss.08284

Volume 11, Issue 117, Page 8284

Authors

Adam Kewley

Biomechanical Engineering, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands

Julia van Beesel

Biomechanical Engineering, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands, Department of Development and Regeneration, KU Leuven Campus Kulak, Kortrijk, Belgium, Dept. of Human Origins, Max Plank Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany

Ajay Seth

Biomechanical Engineering, TU Delft, Delft, Netherlands

Editor

Kevin M. Moerman

CodeMeta (codemeta.json)

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GitHub Events

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Create event: 51
Release event: 8
Issues event: 201
Watch event: 45
Delete event: 38
Issue comment event: 126
Push event: 796
Pull request event: 5
Fork event: 6

Last Year

Create event: 51
Release event: 8
Issues event: 201
Watch event: 45
Delete event: 38
Issue comment event: 126
Push event: 796
Pull request event: 5
Fork event: 6

Issues and Pull Requests

Last synced: 6 months ago

All Time

Total issues: 204
Total pull requests: 6
Average time to close issues: 7 months
Average time to close pull requests: 29 days
Total issue authors: 13
Total pull request authors: 3
Average comments per issue: 0.74
Average comments per pull request: 1.0
Merged pull requests: 2
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0

Past Year

Issues: 106
Pull requests: 2
Average time to close issues: 14 days
Average time to close pull requests: about 9 hours
Issue authors: 10
Pull request authors: 2
Average comments per issue: 0.41
Average comments per pull request: 1.0
Merged pull requests: 1
Bot issues: 0
Bot pull requests: 0

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opensim-creator

Science Score: 49.0%

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OpenSim Creator: An Interactive User Interface for Building OpenSim Musculoskeletal Models

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