import cadquery as Cq import math import unittest def hirth_joint(radius=60, radius_inner=40, radius_centre=30, base_height=20, n_tooth=16, tooth_height=16, tooth_height_inner=2): """ Creates a cylindrical Hirth Joint """ # ensures secant doesn't blow up assert n_tooth >= 5 # angle of half of a single tooth theta = math.pi / n_tooth # Generate a tooth by lofting between two curves inner_raise = (tooth_height - tooth_height_inner) / 2 # Outer tooth triangle spans a curve of length `2 pi r / n_tooth`. This # creates the side profile (looking radially inwards) of each of the # triangles. outer = [ (radius * math.tan(theta), 0), (0, tooth_height), (-radius * math.tan(theta), 0), ] inner = [ (radius_inner * math.sin(theta), 0), (radius_inner * math.sin(theta), inner_raise - tooth_height_inner / 2), (0, inner_raise + tooth_height_inner / 2), (-radius_inner * math.sin(theta), inner_raise - tooth_height_inner / 2), (-radius_inner * math.sin(theta), 0), ] tooth = ( Cq.Workplane('YZ') .polyline(inner) .close() .workplane(offset=radius - radius_inner) .polyline(outer) .close() .loft(combine=True) .val() ) tooth_centre_radius = radius_inner * math.cos(theta) teeth = ( Cq.Workplane('XY') .polarArray(radius=radius_inner, startAngle=0, angle=360, count=n_tooth) .eachpoint(lambda loc: tooth.located(loc)) .intersect(Cq.Solid.makeCylinder( height=base_height + tooth_height, radius=radius, )) ) base = ( Cq.Workplane('XY') .cylinder( height=base_height, radius=radius, centered=(True, True, False)) .faces(">Z").tag("bore") .union(teeth.val().move(Cq.Location((0,0,base_height)))) .clean() ) #base.workplane(offset=tooth_height/2).circle(radius=radius,forConstruction=True).tag("mate") base.polyline([(0, 0, 0), (0, 0, 1)], forConstruction=True).tag("mate") return base def hirth_assembly(): """ Example assembly of two Hirth joints """ rotate = 180 / 16 obj1 = hirth_joint().faces(tag="bore").cboreHole( diameter=10, cboreDiameter=20, cboreDepth=3) obj2 = ( hirth_joint() .rotate( axisStartPoint=(0,0,0), axisEndPoint=(0,0,1), angleDegrees=rotate ) ) result = ( Cq.Assembly() .add(obj1, name="obj1", color=Cq.Color(0.8,0.8,0.5,0.3)) .add(obj2, name="obj2", color=Cq.Color(0.5,0.5,0.5,0.3), loc=Cq.Location((0,0,80))) .constrain("obj1?mate", "obj2?mate", "Axis") .solve() ) return result class TestJoints(unittest.TestCase): def test_hirth_assembly(self): print(Cq.__version__) hirth_assembly() if __name__ == '__main__': unittest.main()