Version 2.0.0-alpha (2025-09-22)

Release 2.0.0-alpha of the PlanarMechanics library. It requires version 4.1.0 of the Modelica Standard Library.

Version 1.6.0 (2023-09-12)

Version 1.6.0 of the PlanarMechanics library. This version requires the Modelica Standard Library 4.0.0.

New components:

• PR #178: VehicleComponents: AirResistanceLongitudinal model for vehicles.

Improvements in this version:

• PR #192: PlanarMechanics.Sources.QuadraticSpeedDependentForce: delete redundant equations when resolveInFrame = frame_resolve.
• Issue #187: Types Color and SpecularCoefficient are obsolete and will be deleted in the next major library release.
  Corresponding types from Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Types are used instead.
• PR #190: Sensors and Sources: use Modelica.Mechanics.MultiBody.Visualizers.Advanced.Vector for visualization of vector quantities (force, torque, etc.).
• Issue #172: PlanarMechanics.Examples.WheelBasedCraneCrab: fix typo in the example name (previously WheelBasedCranCrab).
• Issue #155: VehicleComponents: add PlanarMechanics.VehicleComponents.Wheels.BaseClasses to collect common wheel's elements.

Version 1.5.1 (2021-11-30)

Version 1.5.1 of the PlanarMechanics library. This version requires the Modelica Standard Library 4.0.0.

Release Notes

• Issue #156. Fix false unit of unit vector e in Joints.Prismatic.
• Issue #147: GearComponents.RigidNoLossInternal and GearComponents.RigidNoLossExternal: Use the 3D relation of a circular motion (v = ω x r) to calculate w_gear directly and in continuous matter.
• Issue #153: Fix underdetermined initialization of example GearComponents.Examples.PlanetaryGear.
• Improve documentation.

Version 1.5.0 (2020-10-02)

Version 1.5.0 of the PlanarMechanics library. This version requires the Modelica Standard Library 4.0.0.

Version 1.4.1 (2019-03-29)

Relies on MSL v3.2.3 and uses BSD 3-clause license.

Release of Planar Mechanics Library v1.4.0

Bugfixes and improvements

Release of Planar Mechanics Library v1.3.0

Bugfixes and improvements

First official release of the PlanarMechanics library

v1.2.0

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