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I'm trying to create a simulation of a phone receiver which is attached to the phone base via a phone cord. I want the cord to dangle and stretch the same as a real coiled phone would, but without the headache of manually animating it.

After reading several tutorials and watching this helpful video, I've created what I think is a realistic looking phone cord using a nurbspath and a curve circle to provide the bevel shape.

However I now don't know how to attach the cord at both ends to my phone receiver and phone base meshes. I then jumped straight back into the tutorials and quickly determined that hooks might be what I was after. However I've been flicking through youtube tutorials for a bit now and I'm not sure I understand the full behaviour of a hook.

I have tried to do the following:
1. Select my phone receiver (the handset).
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  1. Select the phone cord (nurbspath).
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  2. Tab into edit mode.

  3. Select only the first vertices on the path.
  4. Press Ctrl+H and select "Hook to Selected Object".
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The result is that I can move my phone receiver and it pulls along the first vertices of the nurbspath. enter image description here

But when I hit the Play button the nurbs path just falls away from the handset as if no hook exists. enter image description here

I will take a good bet I'm doing it all wrong. Happy to take suggestions of a better way to do this.

irwazr
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    If you make a hook and parent them to the objects, that should do it. What didn't work? Images or a .blend would help a lot. Also see if this question helps: http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/2487/rig-a-rope-spanning-two-objects?rq=1 – J Sargent Jun 28 '15 at 13:01
  • Thanks for that, I'm working on getting images together now. The question you suggested was one I had already read. In there they suggest using cloth simulation, but I wasn't sure if that would work for my coiled cord. – irwazr Jun 28 '15 at 13:11
  • Ok I've tried to implement the solution you suggested using a cloth sim and it's clear now this is the better way to go about this. I thought I needed to simulate the cord using a curve, instead it seems best to make a mesh (from the curve if required) and then simulate it from there. Thanks again. – irwazr Jul 16 '15 at 13:06

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