layer-graph
Which parts may not share a plane: crank rocker
One node per link and one edge per pair that cannot be in the same plane. Joined pairs (solid) share a pin, so both surround it and neither can be where the other is; overlapping pairs (dashed) are links with no pin in common whose material is in the same place at some position of the drive. The colours are a layer assignment: 3 planes, which is the fewest this graph admits. Nothing in the mechanism's constraint equations mentions any of it — a mobility of one is a statement about the Jacobian, and this is a statement about the material.
Where it is used
- Two bars that have to cross Links with a width
- A plane is a colour Links with a width
- A pin is not a point Links with a width
- A stack that has to fit Many of one thing
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