Mechanical Design 101 » Linkage Animations

Rice Transplanter

admin — Sun, 15 Jan 2012 05:34:28 +0000

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This rice transplanter selects seedlings from the hopper and plants them into the ground using a four-bar linkage designed by Mark Plecnik.

5SS Spatial Steering Linkage

admin — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:34:55 +0000

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Mark Plecnik designed this spatial 5SS steering linkage to increase the track and increase the camber as the vehicle turns.

Mechanism Generator 2.0 (MechGen 2)

admin — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 07:46:04 +0000

We have a trial version of our Mechanism Generator 2.0 software available. MechGen 2 reads five task positions of a moving part in SolidWorks and generates a set of linkages that approximate the positions within specified tolerances. An animation previewer shows how each linkage moves. Select one and MechGen 2 generates the solid model of the linkage.

This video demonstrates the operation of MechGen 2:

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This is the result of excellent work by Alex Arredondo and Kaustubh Sonawale.

Folding movement for wings for the Icon A5

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:49:28 +0000

This spherical four-bar linkage concept by Kaustubh Sonawale guides the wings of the Icon A5 in the movement shown in the animation.

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Spherical linkage concept to fold a wing

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:38:12 +0000

This is a spherical four-bar linkage concept by Kaustubh Sonawale designed to fold the wings of an Icon A5 small aircraft.

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Spare tire deployment linkage

admin — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:27:36 +0000

Kaustubh Sonawale designed this four-bar linkage to move a truck spare tire from a stowed position to the deployed position.

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Revised Three-panel Hardtop Convertible Linkage

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 21:02:50 +0000

Oscar Alonso replaced the parallelogram drive linkages of the three-panel Volve C70 hardtop convertible with quadrilateral linkages, so it deploys farther and stows more compactly. The wheelbase of this vehicle approaches that of the Mercedes CL500. He used our Mathematica linkage synthesis notebook and our Mechanism Generator add-in for SolidWorks.

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Kinetic Sculpture: Bucephale

admin — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 11:04:59 +0000

This video shows a kinetic sculpture of a horse by the artist Francois Hameury.

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His website is http://hameury.sculptures.pagesperso-orange.fr/index.htm

Spherical Four-Bar Linkages

admin — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 08:08:20 +0000

Here is something new. Our Mathematica notebook can find defect-free spherical four-bar linkages that guide a body through five orientations in a tolerance zone near a specified set of task orientations.

Linkage Synthesis Demonstration

admin — Thu, 25 Nov 2010 09:00:32 +0000

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This is a video capture of the operation of our Mathematica notebook for five-position synthesis of a four-bar linkage. The link to download and try this notebook is on our Linkage Synthesis page.