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Body Rotation followed by body translation along a horizontal line to realign the body panhard link body attachment point with its fixed arc of motion.

BODY ROTATION.jpgBODY_TRANSLATION.jpg

The body is now rolled one degree to the right and has also translated.

I would appreciate your thoughts, experience in doing a 2D layout and constructive criticisms.

Several caveats:

Yes, I use SolidWorks daily in my real world job but will not have a seat of Solidworks anytime soon to carry on what is essentially a hobby.

For the same reason I do not, for solid axle suspensions, plan on investing in any of the 3D kinematics programs that actually work.

Performing the same task analytically in three dimensions leaves me with no pictures and I unfortunately need pictures to get my head around what is happening.

Thanks,

Ralph