#!/usr/bin/python #filename: csg.py #author: Bryan Bishop #url: http://heybryan.org/ #date: 2010-02-15 #description: trying to figure out how to do pythonic CSG (constructive solid geometry) CAD sphere = Sphere(position=(0, 0, 0), radius="5 mm") base = Circle(diameter="20 mm", position=(0,0,0)) cylinder = base.extrude(length="10 mm", direction=Vector(0, 0, 1)) sphere.position = (0, 0, 10) lamp_post = cylinder.fuse(sphere) #if you're in an X11 opengl session thingy: display.add(lamp_post) #or if you want to export it: iges_data = lamp_post.to_iges() file_handler = open("lamp_post.iges", "w") file_handler.write(iges_data) file_handler.close() ############################# base = Circle(diameter="20 mm") base_plate = Extrusion(base, "10mm", Vector(0,0,1)) #OR: base_plate = base.extrude("10 mm", Vector(0, 0, 1)) #OR: base_plate = extrude(base, "10 mm", Vector(0, 0, 1)) assert base_plate == Cylinder(diameter="20 mm", height="10 mm"), "Cylinder and base plate should be exactly the same" base_plate.diameter = "25 mm" assert base.diameter == "25 mm", "base diameter should have been updated" base.diameter = "32 mm" assert base_plate.diameter == "32 mm", "base plate diameter should have been updated"