Linkage Program

Animate Gif Converted from Linkage AVI File The image above was not created by the Linkage program. It was converted from an AVI file that was created with Linkage. I’m thinking about how I might be able to build in the GIF animation creation feature so that I…

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I found a major memory leak in the Linkage program. Fortunately, the leak only added up to large amounts of memory if a simulation was running for a while. The leak was caused by my forgetting to create a virtual destructor for a C++ class. One of the…

I have a new contract job that involves the Windows Phone and I can’t make any changes to the Linkage program for a few months. Since I have some interesting features in the latest version, I wanted to share it. This new version, available here, has some recent…

It took me a while but I now totally understand the DXF format. It wasn’t until I needed to change a bit of the output from the free source code I used, that I needed up getting the details I needed to not be confused. The format is…

The code was fairly simple to write and I had a few minutes to spare today while running some long tests on other code. The video shows a few variations of the multiple slider mechanisms. The sliding connectors must have the exact same sliding radius for these to…

Link That Slides on Curve I am attempting to make a link slide on a curve. When I started writing the code to handle this, I thought that maybe there is a better way. There must be a way to write the simulation code so that there are…

While testing the sliding link feature to make sure that I had not missed something when programming the curved path handling, I have been making interesting mechanisms. Although some configurations are still not handled in the code, things like this work fine. Interesting Mechanism Video

A typo in my post a moment ago made me wonder if I should just add a letter to the word “linkage” and use that as the new name of the program. “Linkjage” has a certain ring to it. Oscillating input is something that I have thought about…

I moved the pink entry to a later position in the color table. Linkage should now have pink links only after there are more than 15 or 20 links in the mechanism. I started to notice that all of the images  that I was posting were a bit…