April 2016

It’s on YouTube and it’s here: Video Tutorial 1

I’m playing around with the Parts List and I’m not sure how to draw some dimensions. Actuators are something that I’ve never bought. I suspect that the overall start length is important as is the amount of throw needed. But someone would probably design a backhoe so that…

Parts List New Features and Changes   The Parts List (in the picture above) Small change to ground dimensions in regular view when there is a link connecting all of the anchors in the mechanism. Added simulation capability for sliding link being positioned by another sliding connector. Some…

I added a cool feature to the Parts List to make it draw a ground link. But I also gave the code the ability to not draw the ground link if it is redundant to an actual link in the mechanism. This new code also allowed me to…

The parts list feature is almost done in the Linkage program. Parts List The parts list is a view of the mechanism where each link is shown in a “horizontal” position in a vertical list with all of the other links. This has been a challenging feature to…

A user contacted me with a mechanism that was not simulating properly. It became clear right when I saw it what was wrong; a link must have two sliding connectors on the same path to just slide. Links that have a single sliding connector can rotate around some…