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Measuring forces in tendons

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Description

Hello,

I want to measure the tension in a tendon attached to an otherwise free body. In lieu of a `tendonfrc` sensor, I'm trying to use force sensors at the tendon attachment sites, with dummy bodies containing the sites.

I expect to see the same force reading from both sensors, with opposite signs, but I'm getting 0 output. I've tried a few configurations and cannot manage to read tendon forces at all by this method. I have obviously misunderstood something.

![danglemass](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/3767326/233979124-aeab3047-b492-4636-b217-b1798cc6f1d5.png)

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The nesting works as expected in the following example with no tendon:

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