Software: hydraulic cylinder design tool

Designers of a hydraulic actuation system need to calculate the performance characteristics of a hydraulic cylinder such as the cylinder forces excerted during push and pull given pre-defined system characteristics, such as the hydraulic pressure delivered by the hydraulic systems pump.

While the mathematical equations underlying these calculations are straightforward and can be easily implemented within a spreadsheet application having a small GTK-based GUI tool at hand for quick evaluations of different cylinder parameters can be advantageous.

How-to install

Here’s how to download and install our Linux-exclusive tool for hydraulic cylinder design:

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sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libgtkmm-3.0-dev
wget https://assets.lxrobotics.com/tools/lxrhct/latest -O lxrhct.AppImage
chmod +x lxrhct.AppImage
./lxrhct.AppImage

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License

This software is released under the terms of the BSD-3 license.