📄️ Path Synthesis
So far you’ve learned how to model known mechanisms to produce a coupler curve but what if you want to reverse the process? That is, given a curve as a set of path points, how to generate mechanism design concepts to create that curve approximately?
📄️ Motion Synthesis
Motion Synthesis is concerned with designing a mechanism to generate a specific motion specified as a set of key positions. Unlike path synthesis problem which specifies only a set of via points, here the orientation of the coupler is also given. MotionGen has another panel specifically for this task for designing four-bar mechanisms with any type and dimension. Open the Motion Synthesis panel from the File menu.