diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 81cf4cb94b63282d9698fda41d8fd60b6dc050f2..c61911bac20b9f7dc4fba2bee04640051f0e3718 100755 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ The slider cranck mechanism is a classical linkage assembly that transforms a ro The mechanism is made of a frame(0), an eccentric (1), a connecting rod (2) and a slider (3) depicted by the following figure: - + This application aims to illustrate the kinematics of the mechanism. It replicates a free software that was available on MECAMEDIA but which is not maintained. It also exists a [MatLab version](https://github.com/mahmoudsamhoud/Cranck-Slider-Mechanism-Computational-Dynamics-). @@ -16,4 +16,15 @@ Besides it illustrates some graphical kinematics tools such as trajectories, vel The application works with python37 and the required packages are: numpy and matplotlib +To run the application, you might either: +* double click on `slider-cranck_mechanism_app.py` if you have a python interpreter set with the right version and libraries; +* in a terminal run the following command : +``` +python slider-cranck_mechanism_app.py +``` + +**Configuration and plots are not automatically updatedwhen settings are changed. +You always have to modify the time position to observe the updates** + + Perspectives are to show instantaneous center of rotation as well as their trajectories. The vector representation could also be improved. \ No newline at end of file