Motion links can carry a coupling (gear pair, rack and pinion, screw) whose ratio follows radii, picked round faces or pitch. Design format 23.
Co-authored-by: SychPL <[email protected]>
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <[email protected]>
A motion link's ratio is read in b's units per a's (mm per degree, degrees per mm) when an angle and a distance are linked; stored values stay per radian, so saved designs are unchanged. Follow-up to #1415.
Co-authored-by: SychPL <[email protected]>
joint.motion_link offset is read in the linked value's units (degrees or mm, or an expression); links are still stored in radians, so saved designs open unchanged. A new joint whose values fall outside its limits starts at the nearer limit, stores it, and says so in warnings. Loop dof also counts at a nearby pose, so a part at a dead point of its loop keeps its mobility. The mechanisms skill is updated to match.
The Joint and As-built Joint dialogs explain why picks make no joint and offer Create Components from Bodies when every pick is on one component; joint.create and joint.as_built suggest component.from_bodies. Labels in all catalogs. Fixes#1239.
A solidcraft-mechanisms agent skill with a worked example that a test replays through the MCP server (the actuator follows the hinge with the stated stroke and the drive stops at the rod's limit); the skills index and docs/mcp.md list it.
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