Mechanisms DVD

[w***@yahoo.co.uk]

I'm trying to design a mechanism that is quite difficult to think
through so I'm looking in a mechanism book for some inspiration.
Sometimes it takes a while to work out the funtions from just diagrams
and I'm wondering if anyone has come across a DVD that shows animations
of random mechanisms?

[Jack]

This may help you get started. It is an atlas of the motion characteristics
of four-bar linkages usually referred to as coupler curves. The curves show
a trace of a point on the link of a four bar mechanism as the input crank is
rotated.
http://www.cedarville.edu/academics/engineering/kinematics/ccapdf/fccca.htm
Many different linkage geometries are included in the atlas. If this
doesn't help you, perhaps you could tell us a little more about what you are
trying do come up with.

Jack

Post by w***@yahoo.co.uk
I'm trying to design a mechanism that is quite difficult to think
through so I'm looking in a mechanism book for some inspiration.
Sometimes it takes a while to work out the funtions from just diagrams
and I'm wondering if anyone has come across a DVD that shows animations
of random mechanisms?

[Jack]

Here's another possible aid for you in some freeware dynamic simulation
software. You would have to input the mechanism to see the simulation.
http://www.freebyte.com/cad/dynamic.htm

Post by w***@yahoo.co.uk
I'm trying to design a mechanism that is quite difficult to think
through so I'm looking in a mechanism book for some inspiration.
Sometimes it takes a while to work out the funtions from just diagrams
and I'm wondering if anyone has come across a DVD that shows animations
of random mechanisms?