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Pitotech organized a successful SAM training course at the Lee-Ming Institute of Technology on 24 August. 

The 6.edition of the textbook  "Konstruktive Getriebelehre" on mechanism analysis & design by Hagedorn, Thonfeld und Rankers was released by the Springer Verlag. 

 Take a last look at the old website.

On June 30, 2011 Pitotech Taiwan will organise the second SAM seminar. Please contact Pitotech to subscribe for the seminar.

During a seminar organised by Pitotech in Taiwan the Chinese version of SAM was released. Please contact Pitotech for more information.

Please also see the YouTube video of the Chinese version of SAM.

A very successful SAM seminar was organised by our sales partner Pitotech in Taiwan (see picture, that shows some of the participants).

Project Notes

Text editor functionality has been added such that the user can include and store project notes
directly in your SAM project file.

Input Motion

Next to the Natural Cubic Spline (with second derivative equal to zero at the first point and last point
of a series of points) the Clamped Cubic Spline is also supported. The latter allows the definition of
the first derivatives in the first point and last point of a series of points. 

Optimization

After completion of the global exploration of the solution space it is now possible to execute an
automated local optimization of ALL solutions found during the global exploration.

Display

• All elements can have individual color/line-type settings.
• A cross-hair (incl. horizontal/vertical mouse snap) simplifies the modeling of mechanisms.

Pan/Zoom

Pan and Zoom are supported by the scroll wheel in a similar way as done in the Google Earth
application.

Graph/Mechanism Window

The two windows can be dimensioned individually. Furthermore, a new icon is introduced to easily
switch between the three display modi: 1. mechanism, 2. graph, 3. mechanism & graph.

Automated Updates

Checking the presence of update and installing updates has been simplified tremendously. If
requested, the checking & installation can even be done automatically.. 

Videos in GIF Format

Next to the existing AVI format, SAM now also supports the much preferred (Animated) GIF format.

Additional Checks

Many extra automated checks have been introduced to minimize the risk of input or problem
definition flaws that lead to incorrect analyses. 

Bug Fixes

A number of bugs and inconsistencies have been resolved.

We are happy to announce that Paviath Engineering Solution has become our distributor in India (see list of distributors).

Lugon Consultoria has become our distributor / consulting specialist in Brazil (see list of partners)

Sites

• Institut für Getriebetechnik und Maschinendynamik (RWTH-Aachen, Prof.Dr.-Ing. Burkhard Corves)
• Four-bar Coupler Curve and Centrode Atlas Main Page (Cedarville College, Prof. Thomas Thompson)

Books

• "Konstruktive Getriebelehre" (in german), Leo Hagedorn, Wolfgang Thonfeld & Adrian Rankers
• "Mechanism Design: Analysis and Synthesis", Arthur G. Erdman, George N. Sandor
• "Bewegungstechnik: Konzipieren und Auslegen von mechanischen Getrieben", Andreas Fricke, Detlef Günzel, Thomas Schaeffer

Software

• LINCAGES: Design software for four-bar and six-bar mechanisms (Prof. Arthur Erdman)
• WORKING MODEL: Multi-body dynamics software (Design Simulation Technologies)

SAM related publications

• "Planetenmischer mit dynamisch getriebenen Mischarmen", Jörg-Henry Schwabe, 10. Kolloquium Getriebetechnik, Ilmenau, 2013 (download)