COMPUTER MODELING AND SIMULATION OF MECHANISMS USING FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
Mihail Zagorski, Radoslav Iliev Miltchev, Mario Semkov · Environment Technology Resources Proceedings of the International Scientific and Practical Conference · 2024
The present paper aims to examine how free and open-source software (FOSS) can be applied in the processes of computer modeling and simulations of mechanisms. Successful examples of the application of free software for CAD (computer-aided design) and simulation of mechanisms are presented and discussed. A case study is used to exemplify how engineering tasks, related to position function determination, first transfer function and output link’s velocity of a four-bar linkage, can be resolved with the help of an open-source scientific programming language – GNU Octave. Recommendations about the applicability of free open-source software in mechanism analysis are provided.