Thursday, December 24, 2020

Version 1.4 - Universal Joint


The latest MOMDYN release is on the way, will be in the stores in the next day or so. The universal joint is the newest joint in the app, which creates a frame with rotations about two axes in an Euler sequence. You can see this in the graphic above, which consists of two universal joints, a rigid translation, and two rigid body boxes. Note the large angular displacements where you can observe the relatively slow oscillation about the vertical (Y) axis, and faster oscillation about the horizontal (X) axis. 

Besides the new joint, I did a whole lot of refactoring and bug fixing in this release. Added a whole lot of test coverage, so while this may not be the most feature-rich update, but I also hope it will be a lot smoother running and crash-free. I plan for this to be a trend; not too many new features going, but a lot of refinement to make the existing features work well. If there's anything you would like to see in upcoming versions, or anything that I'd royally screwed up, I would love to hear it!

 



Merry Christmas!

 Love, MOMDYN! And if you care for the sweet Christmas Music, check out the video of our Christmas tree on Youtube.


Its been a great couple of months for us, after officially releasing back in late September, we crossed the 1,000 download mark just a couple of weeks ago. We're planning a lot of cool stuff for the New Year, Just to name a few:

  • Improved docs and built-in tutorial
  • Change the colors of objects in the touch interface
  • Legends in the plots, and ability to manipulate
  • Document rendering
  • Kinematic constraints
What are you hoping to see?