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Hi.
I am searching for software, where the following is possible:
- Input a bow design - perhaps in 3D, perhaps more simple. Can be the whole bow or mainly the "spring" part of the bow: The limb(s).
- Must be able to handle recurve style limbs.
- If it can handle different laminations in the limb it is a plus.
- I'd prefer that it can show the limbprofile with thickness etc. - i.e. a "correct" model of the limb.
- It should be able to analyze the limb profile as the bow is drawn to full draw. How much energy is stored. Draw-force curve of the design. Draw weight at full draw.
- It should also be able to calculate and analyze stresses in the limb - perhaps with FEM calculations.
- If the program is working - or can work - with a 3D model plus FEM, then stresses could be shown graphically in the 3D model, with colors. So it is easy to visualize where things go wrong - or why the design is unstable.
- If one inputs a limb design and wants to modify it, it would be great if it is easy to modify it graphically by dragging in points, or by changing coordinates. For example if one starts with a straigth limb and then curl it to recurve form, for example.
- If the software can handle more complex designs, for example with more than one string and with non-continous limb design (http://s744.photobucket.com/albums/xx81/Thorvald73/Archery/Phoenix/?albumview=slideshow&direction=reverse") or even compound bows - then it would be great as well.
Come with suggestions, folks. :-) I tried to google it, but did not have success.
I am searching for software, where the following is possible:
- Input a bow design - perhaps in 3D, perhaps more simple. Can be the whole bow or mainly the "spring" part of the bow: The limb(s).
- Must be able to handle recurve style limbs.
- If it can handle different laminations in the limb it is a plus.
- I'd prefer that it can show the limbprofile with thickness etc. - i.e. a "correct" model of the limb.
- It should be able to analyze the limb profile as the bow is drawn to full draw. How much energy is stored. Draw-force curve of the design. Draw weight at full draw.
- It should also be able to calculate and analyze stresses in the limb - perhaps with FEM calculations.
- If the program is working - or can work - with a 3D model plus FEM, then stresses could be shown graphically in the 3D model, with colors. So it is easy to visualize where things go wrong - or why the design is unstable.
- If one inputs a limb design and wants to modify it, it would be great if it is easy to modify it graphically by dragging in points, or by changing coordinates. For example if one starts with a straigth limb and then curl it to recurve form, for example.
- If the software can handle more complex designs, for example with more than one string and with non-continous limb design (http://s744.photobucket.com/albums/xx81/Thorvald73/Archery/Phoenix/?albumview=slideshow&direction=reverse") or even compound bows - then it would be great as well.
Come with suggestions, folks. :-) I tried to google it, but did not have success.
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