Linkage Program

I updated the documentation but never posted about the new image export functionality in the Linkage program. I added the ability to select the image size from a set of four useful sizes. I also added options for scaling; to make things like lines, connector circles, and text;…

With gears somewhat working in the Linkage program (there is a small glitch to fix still), I need to figure out what to do next. I have a list of user requests as well as a list of things that I want. I’m not sure what to do…

I finally figured out how to change that Box Transport Mechanism from my previous post into a Linkage mechanism that works. All I needed to do was get rid of one of the links and then add a link to do the same thing using connectors that are…

The Stephenson Value mechanism on a locomotive is a mechanism that the Linkage program can’t simulate. I was asked by a user for help with a box transport mechanism and I see that it is another mechanism with the same issue Box Transport Mechanism In case that YouTube…

Of course, this is just some freeware that you can download. The only change is that the Linkage page and the Linkage Download page all download version 3, not the old version 2. There is no way to get Linkage 2 anymore. No one reported any bug in…

I am changing the way radii are drawn in the Linkage program. The old way was to show the radius value inside of the circle but that doesn’t seem typical, at least not in the U.S. New Radius Value Position The new way draws the radius value outside…

I just updated the Linkage 3.0 Beta files. The new version has a bug fix that caused some geared mechanisms to fail in the simulator. This came about because of how I now allow a gear to be placed on an input anchor, but be fastened to another…

Orbiting Gears and Chain Mechanism I’m having a little trouble with the Linkage user interface. In the picture above, which is a nicely exported and scaled down JPEG image, I designed a mechanism to show an orbiting planet (gear 2) with an orbiting moon (connector F). Designing this…

Linkage 3.0 is almost ready! I had a little trouble with the math for the gear and chain simulation. For a few minutes, I had very different code for the gear simulator and the chain simulator. I soon realized that I had figured out an improvement when working…