2d mechanical linkage simulation

Are their any other tutorials on Solidworks "SketchBlocks" beside the
2 tutorials that are in Solidworks?

I would like to model 2d mechanical linkages, however the tutorials in
solidworks are not very helpful.

I am using a friend's 2006 version.

I did the 4 bar linkage tutorial and that worked out ok, and I then I
tried simple "stick figure" 4 bar linkage of my own design and that
worked out ok, but when I made my own blocks and added relations the
resulting linkage would not move.

Are there any books that are available on this subject alone?

Is there any online info to help beginners on this subject?

If I could get this 2d mechanical linkage modeling to work it would be
most awesome

Thanks in advance for any help in this matter.

 

Go to http://www.swugn.org/pages/resources/documents/content_database.html
and grab the one Bruce Holway did called Using Blocks for Mechanism Design.
There are some good ideas in there.

WT

 

Wayne,

Thank you for the link, perhaps with some more studying of the
tutorials in Solidworks and that PowerPoint presentation I can
eventually make it work.

I have been searching a lot for more info and my guess is that because
its so new maybe there are not many people using this yet.

This feature would be an immense time saver for experimenting with
different designs before committing the to the time for a 3d model.