Kinematic software that compiles your design into a fast and precise structure
You add parts and joints, and MechDesigner compiles your assembly into very efficient kinematic structures. YOU do not need to worry about the structure.
- MechDesigner compiles your mechanism design into a structure that includes Motion-Parts, Dyads (or Assur Groups), Gears, Pulleys, etc.
- In the compiled form, MechDesigner can apply closed-form, algebraic solutions
- If MechDesigner cannot compile your particular mechanism design into a closed-form solution, then it applies a slower, numerical solution. However, it VERY unlikely that MechDesigner cannot compile your mechanism. It is more likely that your design has too many joints and/or parts.
The advantages of compiling your design are:
- Computational speed - fast and accurate - with a tolerance equal to computer machine accuracy
- Kinematic closures - when you model mechanisms with other 3D-CAD you will find your mechanisms flip into different configurations (closures) in a random way. MechDesigner lets YOU decide which kinematic closure you want. Then, the closure is fixed (unless YOU want a different closure) throughout the machine cycle AND each time you open the model.
- Computational overhead: - as you add new mechanisms to your model, each new mechanism is small.
- Synchronization - it does not matter how fast you want to simulate your design, all parts in all of the mechanisms are always synchronized EXACTLY to a master machine 'clock'.
- Small Steps - you can increment the model through a machine cycle with tiny steps, and get EXACT kinematic data for each micro-step. With other CAD, there is a minimum step size before the kinematic-data updates.
These advantages become more important and obvious to you, as your model becomes more complex, with more kinematic chains, and more machine elements.
Remember -
- YOU get EXACT and FAST solutions
- YOU are in control of the design
- MechDesigner does all the hard work for you.