How do you stop the sliding of rigid body objects?

Question

I have some simple tile like boxes that fall onto a plane. The tile boxes have a rigid body shape of "Box". However even when I think the simulation would be done, the boxes continue to slide off at shallow angle. What attributes in the rigid body physics controls how much an object grips another object. I tried increasing the friction of all the objects to 1 with no effect. Also turned off bounciness and increased damping. But the objects continue to slide until the point that they are all lying flat on the plane. I would think that friction would stop this.

I recreated the scene from scratch and set the friction of all the objects to 1 before running the simulation. Below is the blend file that I created.

Answer 1

You can use Enable Deactivation option and adjusting it's parameters:

It also helps to have the collision objects set as Passive.

What will also increase the simulation accuracy is number of simulation steps:

The more steps the less sliding in the end and the more accurate simulation (this is 5000 steps):

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If you don't want to increase steps, you can also Bake the simulation to keyframes with Object > Animation > Bake Action and delete the keyframes in Dope Sheet Editor that you don't want.

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You can also keyframe the animation tag on the rigid body to be checked in the start and in the end of simulation:

This will enable you to control the position and bypass simulation when the tag is on. Notice that during simulation the location (in N panel) of bricks doesn't change from starting position. You need to get the end location and rotation from word_matrix in the Console:

bpy.context.active_object.matrix_world.translation
bpy.context.active_object.matrix_world.to_euler()

And you keyframe the starting position and the end position.