Additional abilities to save components to a library
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2016 3:09 pm
Hi Art
I'm experimenting some more with Gearotics2 in building simulations of clocks/chronometers.
Attached is an example that tries to simulate John Harrison's anti-friction wheels that he used extensively in his long case clocks and also in his first three marine timekeepers.
Additional Save to Library Ability
I'm not sure how difficult this feature would be to implement.
I find the circular gear "save to library" a very powerful tool when I was building and rebuilding my first chronometer simulation. A lot of times I would have to scrap a model and start over.
I believe that a similar "save to library" would be handy in ratchets, sprockets, pulleys,non-circular gears, and cage gears. I have other simulated mechanisms in mind that would have several different versions of ratchets and sprockets. Since I mess up enough to have to start over...having some of the ratchets and sprockets saved would be a convenience.
Ability to create subsystems
In some machines there are recurring groups of gears that would be nice to save as a linked cluster. Multiple motion works on tower clocks is one such example. It would feature a 12:1 reduction with input of a minute shaft and outputs of concentric minute / hour shafts.
General Questions
I'm curious. Is Gearotics2 programmed in C, or C++ ? Is the display software something like QT? Also within the Library folder I see circular gears that I save to library have a .gtlib extension. There are other files in the library with a .gpf extension what are these files? I thought at first they were either pulley or sprocket definitions.
Bill
I'm experimenting some more with Gearotics2 in building simulations of clocks/chronometers.
Attached is an example that tries to simulate John Harrison's anti-friction wheels that he used extensively in his long case clocks and also in his first three marine timekeepers.
Additional Save to Library Ability
I'm not sure how difficult this feature would be to implement.
I find the circular gear "save to library" a very powerful tool when I was building and rebuilding my first chronometer simulation. A lot of times I would have to scrap a model and start over.
I believe that a similar "save to library" would be handy in ratchets, sprockets, pulleys,non-circular gears, and cage gears. I have other simulated mechanisms in mind that would have several different versions of ratchets and sprockets. Since I mess up enough to have to start over...having some of the ratchets and sprockets saved would be a convenience.
Ability to create subsystems
In some machines there are recurring groups of gears that would be nice to save as a linked cluster. Multiple motion works on tower clocks is one such example. It would feature a 12:1 reduction with input of a minute shaft and outputs of concentric minute / hour shafts.
General Questions
I'm curious. Is Gearotics2 programmed in C, or C++ ? Is the display software something like QT? Also within the Library folder I see circular gears that I save to library have a .gtlib extension. There are other files in the library with a .gpf extension what are these files? I thought at first they were either pulley or sprocket definitions.
Bill