Computer-Aided Analysis of Mechanisms Using ChExcel

As computer CPU gets fast, script computing is increasingly popular. Script computing allows a computer program to be executed interpretively without tedious compilation and linking. It can be used for rapid prototyping, embedded scripting, mobile computing, teaching, and learning. Ch is an embeddedable C/C++ interpreter. It execute C/C++ programs as scripts interpretively without compilation. In this project, Ch and Ch Excel are used for mechanism design and analysis. Microsoft Excel is a user friendly software commonly used by engineers to solve many computational problems. Using Excel as a GUI front-end, many Excel features are readily available for applications and use Ch as backend to handle computations. A familiar structure programming paradigm in C can be used for scripts with capabilities of other software modules in Ch. Mechanism design and analysis modules developed in Ch, Ch Excel and Ch Mechanism Toolkit are ideal solutions with user friendly Excel interface for solving mechanism design and analysis problems.