Sketch Mechanisms

Sketch Mechanisms

Live, hand-drawn animations of common 2D mechanisms — four-bar linkages, slider-cranks, gear pairs, cams, pendulums, and spring-mass systems — rendered right inside your notes from a simple code block. Strokes are drawn with rough.js (the same engine Excalidraw uses), so the look is sketchy and whiteboard-like, and colours follow your Obsidian theme.

Nothing is baked to a file: the animation is a live SVG that plays in reading view and Live Preview, works on mobile, and respects your reduced-motion setting.