A practical guide to kinematic mount design for custom, real world applications: from theory, to design and analysis, to CAD modeling, to production.
Precision Engineering Articles
What Is Precision Engineering?
What is precision engineering? What fundamental difference sets it apart from “traditional” mechanical engineering, and how can that understanding help make your precision design a success?
read more
Accuracy, Repeatability, and Resolution in Precision Machines and Instruments
Designing a successful precision machine or instrument depends on understanding accuracy, repeatability, and resolution – and especially the limiting relationship between accuracy and repeatability.
read moreA Visual Guide to Kinematic Mount Design
Kinematic mount design can be complicated. But it doesn’t have to be. This visual how-to guide highlights the decisions, criteria, and calculations involved in designing a robust, highly repeatable kinematic mount. Color-coding helps you to understand the relationship...
read more
Laying Out a Kinematic Mount Using the Maxwell Criterion
In this video, we look at how to layout a kinematic mount and optimize the design for stability and repeatability using the Maxwell criterion. To download a kinematic mount CAD model to explore the concepts we discuss to and freely adapt it for your own use, click the...
read more
Modeling and Design of a Kinematic Mount in CAD (Using SolidWorks)
Kinematic mounts are one of the most powerful tools in precision machine design and optomechanical engineering. In this video, we look at modeling and designing a kinematic mount in CAD, using SolidWorks. We briefly review specific aspects of kinematic mount design -...
read more
