Object-oriented interactive mechanism design and analysis

@article{Cheng2005ObjectorientedIM,
  title={Object-oriented interactive mechanism design and analysis},
  author={Harry H. Cheng and Dung T. Trang},
  journal={Engineering with Computers},
  year={2005},
  volume={21},
  pages={237-246}
}
We have developed a Ch Mechanism Toolkit for analysis and design of mechanisms. The toolkit was developed using Ch, an embeddable C/C++ interpreter with high-level extensions. The toolkit consists of animation program QuickAnimationTM and a collection of classes for design and analysis of commonly used mechanisms. The Ch Mechanism Toolkit allows users to write simple programs to solve complicated planar mechanism problems. The toolkit can handle mechanisms ranging from the simple fourbar… 
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