Generating Coils in BRL-CAD

Abstract

Springs, shock absorbers, and other parts found in many modern mechanical systems can be described geometrically using a cylindrical coil. BRL-CAD is able to produce coils using the Constructive Solid Geometry (CSG) pipe primitive, but manually inserting enough pipe control points needed to create specific individual coils is a time-consuming process. The coil procedural tool automates most of this process by procedurally generating pipe primitives to describe coil shapes defined by high-level dimensional specifications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2012
Accession Number
ADA568612

Entities

People

  • Clifford Yapp

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Chemical Oxygen Iodine Lasers
  • Coils
  • Department Of Defense
  • Diameters
  • Geometry
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Operations
  • Mathematics
  • Military Research
  • Shape
  • Shock Absorbers
  • Specifications
  • Standards
  • Structural Properties
  • User Interface

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Electrical Engineering
  • Structural Dynamics.