Features

• Generalized coordinate-based modeling of mechanisms with open and closed graphs
• Automatic generation of non-redundant, loop-closing equations for single and multiple loops
• Parametrized linkage definitions
• Flexible and user-extensible LinkageData data object, which stores all information associated with a mechanism
• Copying, joining and merging mechanisms with LinkageData manipulation
• Calculation of kinematic properties of links, such as velocity, angular velocity, acceleration or higher-order derivatives, as closed-form algebraic expressions or numerically
• Visualizing and animating linkages in 3D or projecting to 2D
• Export linkage and animation of linkages to VRML97 or X3D world
• Extensive support of geometric and kinematic modeling of gear and gear-train
• Static analysis of linkages
• Dynamical analysis of linkages
• Interactive linkage definition application (LinkageCAD)
• Extensive support for dimensional synthesis and classification of four-bar mechanisms