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Art

I hope you had a good Christmas and were able to celebrate it with family. I hope 2024 will be a sane and more peaceful year.

BillM

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I've been away from Ticker for a while so I decided to download the programs again. It surprised me when the splash screen for Ticker.exe displayed v 03B instead of v05B.

Bill Michael

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I can't take credit for the actual model. I figured if I could take a working 3D printed model then I had a better chance at getting a model running under Ticker rather than designing one from scratch.

My first attempt was from STLs created by Favre and accessible through the stlfinder.com ...

Art

The link to the model is simply a project file named A4. On my computer, it seems to tick fairly consistently as long as gravity is set to 980m/s.

I've rebuilt the escapement model and experimented with several parameters: masses, restitution, angular damping.
For example:
The balance now ...

Art

I know what you mean about rabbit holes: Our engineer son mentioned that he's been thinking about taking apart his Tag Heuer watch. That led me to watch a bunch of watch repair tutorials. During my searches I ran across some very educational, entertaining Google Android apps: Watchmaker Pro ...

_SwissLeverExperiment.zip Art

I've been away from Ticker.exe for a while. I'm running v2.05B of the program. Is that still the current one?

The attached zip file _SwissLeverExperiment contains an attempt at a lever escapement. The STLs used to create the model were developed by Jaques Favre and ...

Art

I'm not sure if this is an issue with v2.05B or my system.
This link https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1EnF9g-m1tLCxro6CurBnzTIGiSaftoaU?usp=share_link is to a folder Titled Bevel Gear Instabilities.

I've noticed in the past that when I place an object such as a balance from a tass file ...

Art

I loaded V2.05B and the crash problem is no longer there. Under 2.04B, the file A-AutoPlaceBevels02 loaded but crashed when I tried to run the sim.

I'm trying to figure out something with sharing links to files on a google drive. As I build more extensive examples, even zipped versions of ...

Art

I'll give it a try again. Hopefully the file will stay attached this time.

I don't know if there is any good way to deal with coordinate systems when dealing with rotational vector transform matrices. I'm a bit familiar with inertial systems dealing with roll, pitch and yaw and having to know ...

Art

I've downloaded v2004B. I managed to crash Ticker. The attached zip file contains two versions of a project where I used the built in capability to place a bevel wheel/pinion. I attached a 100RPM motor to the pinion.

A-AutoPlaceBevels Runs fairly well. I attached the Ticker-Success log file ...