Working Model is a program that will help you to visualize the motions of some of the systems we are studying in class and watch animations in real time. Following are instructions to launch Working Model and to download some example files. Note that there are also a lot of examples in the Working Model folder.

Starting Working Model

If you are on Mac:
1. Go to the Engineering and Sciences folder in Launcher
2. Open the Working Model folder.
3. Click on the Working Model 2D icon
If you are on PC:
1. Go to Programs from the Start button, click on folder Engineering and Science.
2. Then select Working Model 2D.

Downloading example files

If you are on Mac:
1. Go to the Apple icon in the top left corner of the screen and select Chooser
2. Click on AppleShare and select umich-ENG-CAEN under Apple Talk Zones
3. Under Select a file server, choose Macintosh Software
4. Logon as Guest and click on COURSE_FOLDERS
5. A folder now appears on your desktop named COURSE_FOLDERS. Open it, and select CoE Course Folders
6. Select ME240
7. Copy the files in this folder into a directory on the Mac Hard Drive (you may want to create your own directory for this)
8. Now go to the Working Model window, and go to Open File
9. Go to the directory in which you saved the files, and open whichever one is of interest (you may want to try projector first)
If you are on PC:
1. Start Working Model (see above)
2. Under File, click Open File (or click on the open file icon on the tool bar)
3. An Open File window will open on your screen. At the top of this window is a box showing which directory you are looking in. Hit the down arrow to the right of the box and highlight the drive called Lab on 'Caen-pacific\Data\Software' [S:]
4. Select course.old
5. Select me240
6. Select Linkage2. This is the file you will use in Computer Assignment #3.