Hi yakas, I've heard of a program called "Working model 2d" which would probably be good for that, but it's pretty expensive: http://www.design-simulation.com/WM2D/index.php

You might also try this: http://physion.net/index.php or there's a plug-in for SketchUp called sketchyphysics which may be able to help.

I'm not familiar with these tools myself though.

- Michael

Geomagic (Alibre) has Dynamics, which I have not got around to using yet.

- Brian

Hi Yakas,

Very similar to what Michael mentioned (2d Working Model) only this one is free it's called Algodoo http://www.algodoo.com and I think you can import accurate shapes, not sure, you'll have to check it out.

Cheers

Thanks everyone,
Algodoo is perfect! Very simple yet useful.

there is something called dxf2phun, which should convert a dxf file into an algodoo readable.

http://en.sourceforge.jp/projects/dxf2phun/



it's a pretty straight forward, drag&drop application. the output is a script(thyme), which you can paste into algodoo (shortcut F10 in algodoo brings down the console window). i did use it with some older versions of algodoo, but as i can recall, dxf2phun is quite picky regarding the geometry it's been fed. i had more luck with svg2phun

http://www.geocities.jp/int_real_float/svg2phun/SVG2Phun.html

via. uniconverter(ai to svg), as there is no native SVG export option in MOI.

http://sk1project.org/modules.php?name=Products&product=uniconvertor