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When I implemented the gear feature in the Linkage software, I decided to make the gears be links. This was mostly hidden and whenever a gear needed to turn a crank or be turned by a crank, I opted to have the user “fasten” the gear to the…
Continue readingThe spline and cam features are working in the Linkage software. Above is a video with my first attempt at a tutorial. Since I haven’t used the software to create splines and cams much, I stutter and pause a bit while thinking about what to do next. It’s…
Continue readingAfter many more hours of work, I have a complete polyline editor. Each segment can be a Bezier curve or a straight line. Each node can be a cusp or have the control points smooth and optionally symmetrical. Nodes can be added and deleted and the curve can…
Continue readingI did some work this week on the cam feature for the Linkage program. Cams are found in many places including in car engines – they open and close the valves – and in many industrial machines. Car engine cams are all based on a similar shape and…
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