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New in MD17

Menus and Toolbars

New Menus

There is a new pseudo Ribbon style menu.

Previously, the menus were drop-down textual menus.

Now, each command in a menu has a large icon, and shorter text.

Shortcut menu

At the top of the screen, we have added the shortcut menu.

Menus and Toolbar Options

You can choose to show:

•Menus only

•Toolbars only (as in MD13, ... , MD16)

•Menus and Toolbars together

Dynamics

A major new development. You can analyze the dynamics of one and two degree of freedom kinematic-chains.

By dynamics we mean the 'vibrational' response of a kinematic-chain to an input motion, in which the Parts have Mass, Mass Moments of Inertia, Stiffness, and Joint have Friction and Damping.

You can compare the vibrational-response to the input motion as a scrolling graph or fixed time graph.