{"id":237,"date":"2011-09-20T07:01:14","date_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/kinematics-finding-linkage-cognates-with-solidworks"},"modified":"2011-09-20T07:01:14","modified_gmt":"2011-09-20T11:01:14","slug":"kinematics-finding-linkage-cognates-with-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/09\/kinematics-finding-linkage-cognates-with-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Kinematics Tutorial: Finding Linkage Cognates with SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lately, I have been thoroughly enjoying learning about linkages, their motion, and their synthesis.  Anyone who has tried to find the cognates of a four-bar linkage may have noticed that the process is time-consuming and a bit tedious.<\/p>\n

SolidWorks to the rescue!<\/p>\n

SolidWorks makes it easy to build the Cayley diagram of a linkage, and subsequently move this diagram to find the cognates.  In theory, movement of links 2 and 4 to their designated positions will cause the cognates of the linkage to appear, and luckily, in this case, theory becomes reality. The different cognates are color coded:<\/p>\n

\"Roberts<\/a>
  \"Roberts<\/a><\/p>\n

This certainly makes life easier.  Thanks for viewing!<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Dave Knight<\/p>\n

Worcester Polytechnic Institute<\/p>\n

Mechanical Engineering, 2013<\/p>\n

Download Roberts Linkage<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lately, I have been thoroughly enjoying learning about linkages, their motion, and their synthesis.  Anyone who has tried to find the cognates of a four-bar linkage may have noticed that the process is time-consuming and a bit tedious. SolidWorks to<\/p>\n... Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":111,"featured_media":1573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5207,4015,5219],"tags":[4026,3934,3930,4898,4620,3940,4027,3952,4028,4025,4403,4882,3951,4896,3931,4001,4019,4077,4318],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-analysis-2","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","tag-2d","tag-3d","tag-cad","tag-cognates","tag-computer-aided-design","tag-design","tag-drafting","tag-education","tag-engineering-graphics","tag-instructor","tag-kinematics","tag-linkage","tag-model","tag-roberts","tag-solidworks","tag-student","tag-teacher","tag-tutorial","tag-tutorials"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/111"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}