KINEMATICS

 

Dear Fellow Engineering/Manufacturing Professional,

 

I finally had an opportunity to utilize IRONCAD/INOVATE's kinematics capabilities.  I was hired by Steve Smith from 5 Star product Development to work with him on his Adaptive Bike Product. As you can see there is a braking mechanism and we had to make sure there was adequate movement. I constrained the four-bar linkage and I ran it through its motions.  I was surprise to see that there was an interference I previously was not aware of, when I did a static evaluation in KeyCreator.  If you have mechanisms to evaluate kinematics is a must.  IRONCAD/INOVATE offer this incredible capability in an easy and fun to use CAD system.  INOVATE ($1,270.00) is not only a great add-on product for KeyCreator but for any other CAD system that doesn't offer an easy to use kinematics, animation, history based, hybrid modeling or realistic rendering.  Give me a call and I can give you a gotomeeting demonstration of this great product or go to http://www.ironcad.com/product/trialdownload/ for a 30 day fully functional evaluation.

 

The rendering on the left is the assembly of the Adaptive Bike, The right is the results of the kinematic study.