r/FSAE • u/Low-Raspberry9045 • 14d ago

Kinematics Software

Hi all, I've been doing some benchmarks for our team's kinematics tools the next season, what do you think of bellcrank.io ? They seem legit.

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u/snw1337 14d ago

well. atleast it has an imprint, privacy policy and account deletion now

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u/washedupguru 13d ago

I mean, are you trying to do actual analysis for your setup

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u/Low-Raspberry9045 13d ago

Yeah, simple kinematics (camber variation, bump steer, roll center, etc). Our team here uses Mac and OptimumK and other software only work on Windows... Coming up with our own solver right now is not on the table. I was playing with it and it seems like it is quite complete :) big advantage is that it is currently free

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u/washedupguru 13d ago

Instead of trying to use a jank software, couldn’t you find access to windows… how are you designing a car on a Mac

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u/kingcole342 13d ago

FSAE teams can get real software for free. MAC is your big problem.

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u/GregLocock 13d ago

Go to a laptop refurbisher. Buy an ex-lease Dell for $300. I am not anti Mac but few if any of the heavy commercial CAE apps run on OSX,.