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by FaradayEnt
Fri Jan 14, 2022 10:18 pm
Forum: Mechs and Kinematics
Topic: Mechanical Kinetic Simulation / Animation CAD Software
Replies: 3
Views: 57875

Re: Mechanical Kinetic Simulation / Animation CAD Software

Hi, thanks, but didn't see much about animation or simulation in QCad. Ultimately it looks like FreeCAD is the best free solution even though what's happening in animation is hidden and might be hard to debug if there's a problem.

Or... I might forget about software for the cam stuff and just do it ...
by FaradayEnt
Wed Jan 12, 2022 10:35 pm
Forum: Mechs and Kinematics
Topic: Mechanical Kinetic Simulation / Animation CAD Software
Replies: 3
Views: 57875

Mechanical Kinetic Simulation / Animation CAD Software

Greetings,
I'd like to design a mechanical toy comprised of gears, levers, cam followers , and maybe springs. Trying to find some free or really inexpensive, preferably desktop, not cloud based) CAD software in which I can simulate or animate the design.

Things I'm looking at:
- FreeCAD (https ...