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This is important as the bullet starts spinning after it exists the target, thus giving me the wrong values. Is it possible to achieve this without adding the script inside the explicit dynamic tool?&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-443179","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-acp-explicit-dynamics-1","topic-tag-explicit-dynamics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 4.9.10 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hello, I am simulating the glass penetration by bullet where I am interested in having the output data of the residual velocity of the bullet. The bullet is taken as the rigid body as at first when I tried outputing the surface velocity, it behaved anomaliously due to deformations. 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