Educational software tools for the kinematic analysis of mechanisms

Educational software for the kinematic analysis of planar and spatial mechanisms is presented in this article. This general‐purpose kinematic software has been developed as a complement to Machine Theory lectures. The different modules integrated in the software compute and analyse various kinematic entities, which enable an advanced student to investigate the characteristics of a mechanism. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput Appl Eng Educ 22: 72–86, 2014

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