Syntheses for existing linkages
You can now also attach a multi-bar synthesis to an existing linkage, even if it is only part of a larger system. This lets you improve existing designs instead of starting over.
ASOMv10 · for complex concepts
From the motion goal to the right linkage
In conceptual design, you specify where a part should move. ASOMv10 creates a suitable linkage, keeps your requirements in place while you optimize and shows every change immediately in the motion and the force curve.
These companies work with ASOM
Used in: Automotive OEMs and suppliers · Furniture and fittings · Window and door technology · Medical technology · Aviation · Mechanical engineering and energy technology
Your benefits
Less trial and error, faster decisions
Kinematic tasks often take months because even small changes throw the entire concept into disarray. ASOMv10 locks in what is already right – so even complex tasks remain manageable.
For your design engineers
Set the goal, get the linkage
Syntheses create the linkage from your requirements – you no longer have to try out joint positions by hand.
See every change instantly
Motion, diagrams and forces respond to every change in real time.
Know forces early
Manual and drive forces for every position and every load case.
Capture your own know-how
Your own calculations with the scripting language, automation via the COM interface.
For your company
Validate concepts at the design stage
Motion and forces for all load cases are established before the first part is manufactured.
Know-how stays in-house
Your design rules are stored in the software as expressions and scripts and can be shared within your team.
Your data stays with you
ASOM runs locally on your computers, with no cloud. For activation, only license data is sent to our license server in Germany – and, if you wish, activation works entirely offline.
Direct from the developer
ASOM is developed in Germany. Training, consulting and support come directly from info-key – with 26 years of kinematics know-how.
New in ASOMv10.5
What the new version offers
Syntheses for existing linkages, imperial units, new exports and global constants for scripts – plus many small improvements that make everyday work easier.
Metric or imperial
ASOM displays values in either metric or imperial units – practical for international teams and customers. For some quantities, additional units are available to choose from.
New exports
Pure geometry as DXF for your CAD system, plus JSON and point lists. You can also save point trajectories directly to a file.
Global constants and characteristic curves
You manage values that you need in several scripts centrally in one table. As characteristic curves, they also control load functions and can be created directly from graphs, expressions or trajectories.
Also new
- Use a position from the simulation as the new initial state
- Edit expressions, graphs and many other elements by double-clicking
- Import point lists and spline rails from the clipboard
- Undo individual steps with the Backspace key when creating polygons, spline rails and syntheses
- Export and import user-defined expressions
- See immediately in the drive control which trigger block is currently waiting
- and much more
Syntheses
You set the goal. ASOM finds the linkage.
Define where a part needs to go – as points or as positions. From this, ASOM creates a suitable multi-bar linkage and keeps your requirements in place while you move joints and continue to optimize.
- Syntheses for one-bar, four-bar and six-bar linkages as well as slider-cranks
- Define holding forces and springs at the same time
- Change requirements at any time – the linkage adapts automatically
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Symmetrical six-bar linkage for a door
Calculate forces
Know the forces before the prototype is built
For every position, ASOM calculates the manual or drive force your mechanism needs – with springs, gas springs, friction and inertia.
- Compare load cases such as different seat occupancies in the same diagram
- Switch between temperatures, inclinations, directions of motion and much more
- Take friction and tolerances into account from the start
Forces are calculated kinetostatically.
Video: Tailgate with gas springs (2:10)
Motion sequences
Program complex motion sequences graphically
In the advanced drive control, you assemble the motion from blocks – including asynchronous partial movements, loops and alternative motion sequences for the same linkage.
- Action, trigger and switch blocks instead of program code
- Trigger steps by time, drive value or dead point
- Counting loops and condition-controlled loops
Presentation
Results that convince – within your team and with your customers
Attach sketches and images to the moving parts, and your model becomes a vivid presentation – played back in real time or even faster.
- DXF drawings and images as mounting zones and part contours
- Element shadows show end and intermediate positions at a glance
- Infinite loop and a camera that moves with a part for relative movements
Scripts and COM
Your know-how in the software
With the scripting language, you capture your own know-how in ASOM: you create your own calculations as expressions, plus load functions and data sources based on your rules. Via the COM interface, you integrate ASOM into your engineering tools.
- Your own calculations as expressions, evaluated in every simulation
- Load functions and data sources based on your own rules
- Change parameters, start simulations and read out results via the COM interface
More features
Even more in ASOMv10
Constraints lock in what is settled
You define positions, angles, distances and lengths as constraints. Change something in the model, and the rest adapts accordingly.
The building blocks of planar kinematics
Gear pairs, belt transmissions, racks and spline rails for curved guides – combined into mechanisms with any number of degrees of freedom.
Diagrams for every quantity
Any number of diagrams with any number of graphs. Graphs can be copied, moved and exported as Excel or text files.
Forces right on the model
Joint forces appear as arrows on the mechanism, also for comparing several load cases. Plus trajectories, the instantaneous center and the fixed and moving centrodes.
Contours that roll on each other
Spline rails reproduce curved contours, including closed ones – for example on cam plates and curved guides. With a travel connection, two contours roll on each other.
Import and export splines
You save spline rails as text, Excel or DXF files and read them back into other projects. The complete geometry goes to your CAD as DXF.
Examples
ASOMv10 in action
See in just a few minutes how ASOMv10 solves typical real-world tasks.
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Motor-driven car seat
An electric motor moves the seat to all extreme positions. ASOMv10 shows torque and power for different seat occupancies – and immediately what difference a torsion spring makes.
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Hospital bed with spindle drives
Two drives that model spindle drives adjust the height and the foot section. ASOMv10 calculates drive and bearing forces in real time, with friction in all joints and guides.
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Joint friction
How much force does friction cost? With a pin diameter and a friction coefficient for each joint, you compare manual and joint forces with and without friction.
You will find more examples from the automotive, furniture, aviation and mechanical engineering industries in our example overview.
View all examples
Getting started
Personal support instead of an anonymous download
You have a direct contact person from the very start – from the online demo to your own license.
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Get in touch
You request an appointment for an online demo – without obligation.
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Online meeting
We show you ASOM live and answer your questions, ideally using a task from your field.
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Train and evaluate
You book the three-day basic training and try out ASOM for three months in your own projects.
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Purchase a license
After the evaluation, you decide whether to purchase a license.
Single-seat license
For one fixed workstation.
Network license
For teams: usable simultaneously by the agreed number of users, on different computers in your network.
Experience ASOMv10 live
We present ASOMv10 to you in an online meeting without obligation, ideally using an example from your field, and answer your questions directly.