ThreeDimSim mechanics simulator

[ynneb]

Here is an interesting piece of software that may help with design work of a machine.
It is a mechanics simulator.
I havnt tried it out yet but it looks promising.

You can visit the site here http://www.havingasoftware.nl/index.htm

Here is an example of one of its creations.

[High Seas]

Way cool. Why don't the bricks bust the windscreen?
Figure 3 at this link (same guy) http://www.havingasoftware.nl/robots/cnc/cnc.htm has a nifty Dremel Mount and Z axis for those who didn't continue sleuthing!

[sbrpollock]

Hey.....How come those bricks fall in an identicle pattern every time the car hits them?

[ynneb]

Originally Posted by sbrpollock Hey.....How come those bricks fall in an identicle pattern every time the car hits them?

What you are seeing is an animated gif of a screen capture from this program, not a real time calculation of the same event.

If how ever you mean that in the program it repeats itself, then all I can think of is that the simulator is not subject to gravity fluctuations, wind changes or earth vibrations. I guess in a stable virtual environment it will calculate exactly the same.
I guess the spirit of the program is more, that it will do a general calculation and not a critical calculation like landing a space probe on Mars 7 months later. Remember its just an 85 buck program and not a NASA super computer.