Mechanical design simulation

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I thought id share a piece of software i stumbled upon a few days ago while searching for “mechanical design simulation software”. Its called Linkage and works like a vector drawing program.

Mechanisms can be designed with pivot connectors or sliding connectors. Inputs to drive the mechanism can be rotary or linear. The number of connections on a link and the number of links is virtually unlimited.
it has a very nice and intuitive image based menu for dropping elements into the design.

Here is a bird leg i have designed

and i will (at some point) be making this printable to scale once i get the DXF export feature to work correctly as modeling it manually is a pain…

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Here is a Link to the FREE Software:
blog.rectorsquid.com/linkage-mec … simulator/

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Thanks for sharing Jonny! This would be useful and probably make it easier when I designed the linkage system for the upper sphere section on my MorpHex.

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Yes, thanks for the link!

I can use it.

Alan KM6VV

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I am happy people are finding this of use.
Please feel free to post your ideas to this thread if you wish.
Will be interesting to see. :wink:

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has anyone done any tutorials on how to get started ?