Unsolved Adjust beamStrength

I am trying to adjust the strength of a beam from a lua script. I get an error on the line
obj:setBeam() "bad argument #8 to 'setBeam' (number expected, got nil)" . What are the parameters that setBeam takes? Also could I just set the entire breakGroup to the math.huge beamStrength using setBeam?

helper.queueLuaCommandByName(vName,
[[for _,b in pairs(v.data.beams) do
if b.breakGroup ~= nil then

local breakGroups = type(b.breakGroup) == "table" and b.breakGroup or {b.breakGroup}
for _, g in pairs(breakGroups) do

if type(g) == 'string' and (string.find(g, "hinge") ~= nil or string.find(g, "latch") ~= nil) then

b.beamStrength = math.huge
obj:setBeam(-1, b.id1, b.id2, b.beamStrength, b.beamSpring, b.beamDamp, b.beamDeform, b.deformLimit, b.deformLimitExpansion, b.beamPrecompression)​

end​

end​

end
end]])

 

Well I found out part of the problem "bad argument #8 to 'setBeam' (number expected, got nil)" error is caused by having nil for the b.deformLimit so I just set that to math.huge.

Also it looks like -1 as beam number appends it


What does obj:breakBeam(bcid) code do on the c++ side? Does it set the beamStrength to zero?

 

Well it looks like the code still does not work in the scenario. I am trying to weld the hinges on the car but they still open. If I setBeam and use a 1 or 0 it causes the parts to blow up. Do you have a function to weld hinges?

 

Any update on this? I am able to use setBeam with -1 without errors but it does not do anything.