Two-Position Motion Synthesis

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WM2D File

Software copyright © 2004 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.

Info

This linkage is designed to pass two positions (in red). Note that the driver dyad (in yellow) restricts the motion of the fourbar (in green) to the range of the positions.

Source

This Working Model file is adapted from Problem 3.48 on p.153 in Design of Machinery, 3rd ed. by Norton, R.L., McGraw-Hill, 2004.

Credits

This Working Model file was first developed by Joshua Ampofo.