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Design. Analyse. Optimise.

Whether you are a machine designer, specialist, occasional user or professor the award-winning mechanism design software SAM, with a track record of more than 25 years, makes you more productive and increases the quality of your concepts.

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Teachers

SAM makes your mechanism course more lively and your practical exercises more fun for your students. At the end this leads to improved knowledge transfer, motivated students and higher grades.

Design engineers

Mechanism design is just one of the many challenges that you have to face. If it’s not your daily routine, it is important that the tools you are using, are easy and intuitive. Most of our development staff has a mechanical design background, so we understand your needs!

Specialists

With SAM you can tackle any mechanism design challenge, perform motion/force-analysis and even improve the initial design with state-of-the-art optimization based on a mixed evolutionary algorithm and Simplex approach.

Features

General

Planar mechanisms
Design, simulation and optimization
CAD-interface, DXF import/export

Modelling

beam, slider, spring
belt, gear, rack-and-pinion
non-linear spring, curved slider

Analysis

positions, angle and lengths
velocity, acceleration, force and torque; user expressions

Input Motion

composition of standard profiles
textfile
multiple actuators

Optimization

all geometry
multiple parameters
function or path

Design Wizard

angle-function generation
4-bar mechanisms
exact linear guiding

Prices

The prices are in euros and exclusive of VAT. The delivery includes the activation key and license information, software and manual can be found on the download page. Help at startup is free.

Professional Standard Light
Kinematics (Motion)
Kinetostatics (Force)
Optimization

Perpetual licence

Node Locked
€ 2600,-
€ 1950,-
€ 1400,-
Floating/Network
€ 5200,-
€ 3900,-
€ 2775,-
Node Locked (Educational Institute)
€ 925,-
€ 650,-
€ 475,-
Classroom-Kit (Educational Institute)*
€ 2600,-
€ 1950,-
€ 1400,-

Annual licence

Node Locked
€ 700,-
€ 525,-
€ 375,-
Floating/Network
€ 1400,-
€ 1050,-
€ 750,-
Node Locked (Educational Institute)
€ 250,-
€ 175,-
€ 125,-
Classroom-Kit (Educational Institute)*
€ 700,-
€ 525,-
€ 375,-

(In-company) training

Please contact our head office

*  includes 100x floating institute licenses + 1x node locked teacher license + 100x free annual student license.

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