ValveGear Constructor

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Dear members,

most model engineers aim to own a model steam locomotive. For me it's a little different as I am passionately focused on two demanding fields of steam locomotive technologies, one of which is the design and optimization of steam locomotive valve gears.

After doing this for many months in MS Excel, years ago I decided to start from new and build an online program that not simply returns diagram data of manually calculated valve gear dimensions but that optimizes the detailed dimensions itself and that still allows to override each optimized geometry to simulate any given real non-optimal valve gear too.

So when designing a new valve gear using the program, you get near-optimal results within minutes, and when modeling an existing valve gear with some effort using the program's abilities, you easily can see what to change to optimize it.

In the last years, I finally could work on the more detailed program features and make it a more and more comfortable tool.

For more advantages, please watch the scrolling text on the main program website www.constructor.valvegear.de/en/ .

Best regards
VGC

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Thanks to all likers! And concerning "0 comments" - let me see it as "no comments - no haters" ;-) ;-) ;-)

But seriously: I would like to add a link to an embedded running valve gear on a steam train club website. The original program is embedded below a cover site that controls the actions of the program. Perhaps this is also a good starting point for future tutorials as such a cover site also could change valve gear dimensions and to some other stuff. A lean replacement for a tutorial video - let's see by time.

bruenig-dampfbahn.ch/lok_1068

Click on the English flag right on top of the program window, and then click "Auto" ;-)

And there are some more options - move your mouse over the different areas on the left and see!