Major Features of Ch Mechanism Toolkit

• Variety of Mechanisms
  Contain classes for design and analysis of four-bar, crank-slider, five-bar, six-bar linkages including fourbar/crank-slider, Watt six-bar, Stephenson six-bar, and cam-follower mechanisms. Follow the examples of the source code for these mechanisms, users can develop their own software for analysis and design of other mechanisms.

• Kinematic Analysis
  Perform position, velocity, acceleration analysis for joint angles and coupler points.

• Synthesis
  Perform synthesis of mechanisms.

• Dynamic Analysis
  Perform dynamic analysis based on equations of motion.

• Animation
  Perform animation of mechanisms either in a local machine or through the internet. Easily build animation for other mechanisms using QuickAnimation in the toolkit.

• Web-Based
  Using the Web-based mechanism design and analysis system and Ch Mechanism Toolkit, design and analysis of four-bar, five-bar, six-bar linkages including fourbar/crank-slider, Watt six-bar, Stephenson six-bar, and cam-follower mechanism can be performed through the Web using a Web browser over the internet without any programming. The user can develop other web-based applications easily using this mechanism toolkit.

• Plotting Utilities
  Provide many plotting functions to allow output visually displayed or exported as external files with a variety of different file formats including postscript file, PNG, LaTeX, etc. They can also readily be copied and pasted in other applications such as Word in Windows.

• C/C++ Compatible
  Different from other software packages, programs written in Ch Mechanism Toolkit can work with existing C/C++ programs and libraries seamlessly.

• Object-Oriented
  Implemented as classes for commonly used mechanisms, Ch Mechanism Toolkit is object-oriented.

• Embeddable
  With Embedded Ch, Ch programs using Mechanism Toolkit can be embedded in other C/C++ application programs.

Ch Mechanism Toolkit is available in Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, HP-UX, Solaris. It costs $199 for academic use and $899 for commercial use.

About SoftIntegration, Inc.

SoftIntegration, Inc., is the leader of scripting technology for ubiquitous computing. SoftIntegration provides infrastructure software and services for rapid application development and deployment, scientific numerical computing, embedded scripting, and Web-based software integration. Ch®, the company's flagship product, is an embeddable C/C++ interpreter that provides a comprehensive solution for engineers, scientists, Web programmers, software developers, C/C++ beginners and experts, system administrators, realtime programmers, quality analysts, and instructors and professors.