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> If you like Linkage, you might also like Solvespace. No, I mean Brent Curry's Linkage[1] bicycle design software, not David Rector's Linkage Mechanism Design
by app4soft 3y ago
> If you like Linkage, you might also like Solvespace.
No, I mean Brent Curry's Linkage[1] bicycle design software, not David Rector's Linkage Mechanism Designer and Simulator[2].
You should read Wikipedia article.[0]
N.B. About SolveSpace, as I'm its experienced user[youtube,patreon], I may say next: yes, it could be used for bike mockup, as any other CAD, but it still has a lot of limitations and even does not export correct STEP files yet[3], and in FreeCAD such STEP could fixed only partially.[video]
So, for serious 3D CAD work I highly recommend use FreeCAD (and LibreCAD for 2D CAD work) instead of SolveSpace, and use SolveSpace only as a helper tool like a calc or as a notepad for noting ideas.
About Linkage Mechanism Designer and Simulator, it is only useful for planar (2D) kinematics analyze, and if You are looking an alternative for it take a look on Pyslvs[4], that is in part based on SolveSpace's solver.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rattleCAD#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/rattleCAD#History
[1] https://bikechecker.com/ https://bikechecker.com/
[2] https://blog.rectorsquid.com/linkage-mechanism-designer-and-simulator/ https://blog.rectorsquid.com/linkage-mechanism-designer-and-...
[3] https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/206 https://github.com/solvespace/solvespace/issues/206
[4] https://github.com/KmolYuan/Pyslvs-UI https://github.com/KmolYuan/Pyslvs-UI
[video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3LJMeqUDrU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3LJMeqUDrU
[youtube] https://www.youtube.com/@appsoft https://www.youtube.com/@appsoft
[patreon] https://patreon.com/app4soft https://patreon.com/app4soft
- app4soft 3y ago> No, I mean Brent Curry's Linkage Correction: Gergely Kovacs' Linkage (Brent Curry is dev of BikeCAD)