Mekanimo Reference and Users’ Guide

Contents:

• Overview
  • Credits
• System requirements
• Main Components
  • Canvas
  • Code Panel
  • Object Tree
  • Python Interpreter
  • Construction Tools
  • Menu Items
• Fundamental Concepts
  • Units
  • Coordinates and coordinate systems
  • Angles and rotations
  • system, canvas, and frame
  • Elements
  • Names and aliases
  • Default values
  • Time steps
  • mekanimo_startup.py
• User Interface Basics
  • Selecting elements
  • Zooming
  • Panning
  • Copying and pasting
  • Undo/Redo
  • Keyboard shortcuts
• Modelling
  • Rigid Bodies
  • Connectors
  • Assemblies
  • Behaviors
• Running and postprocessing
  • Running a model
  • Postprocessing
• Recording Video
  • Setting the output size
• Graphics
  • Rigid body graphics
  • Connector graphics
  • Sprites
  • Textures
• Audio
  • Audio
• Main objects
  • System
  • Frame
  • Canvas
• Common techniques
  • Moving objects around with keyboard
  • Synchronizing sprites and movements
  • Changing the gravity direction with mouse
  • Adjusting sound effects
  • Applying behaviors unconditionally
• Utilities
  • Points
  • Lines
  • Coordinate system transformations
  • Angles
  • Distance
  • Polygons
  • Cross product
  • Dot product
  • Matrices
  • Affine transformations
  • Newton-Raphson
  • Line fitting
  • Circle fitting
  • Circle by three points
  • Direction cosines
• Tutorials
• Mekanimo’s Programming Interface (API)
  • Main Components
  • Elements

Indices and tables

• Index
• Module Index
• Search Page
• Glossary