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Support => How to's and tutorials => Topic started by: GeoffreyGRoy on December 31, 2019, 07:07:42 am

Title: An excercise in Scripting to help design and make a Mechanical Iris
Post by: GeoffreyGRoy on December 31, 2019, 07:07:42 am

I am attaching a short tutorial/discussion on the use of scripting to assist in the design and manufacture of a mechanical iris.  I was attracted to this project when I started considering the use of an mechanical iris to vary the light output from a table lamp (instead of an electronic solution).
 
Having found a design online, I began by asking the questions: Does it work? Is the drawing accurate?  The Geometry is quite complex, so I turned to writing a CamBam script to answer these question.  The results are included in the attachments: A description of the task, the resulting script and a CamBam model to test it out.

The script simulates the behaviour of the iris as it opens/closes, and also formally checks for conflicts between the moving parts to allow for any necessary changes to the geometry to be made.

Any feed back or comments are most welcome.

Geoff

Title: Re: An excercise in Scripting to help design and make a Mechanical Iris
Post by: EddyCurrent on December 31, 2019, 08:56:25 am

Good one Geoff.
I do like to see an elegant mechanical design, I will have to delve into the script tonight.

Title: Re: An excercise in Scripting to help design and make a Mechanical Iris
Post by: GeoffreyGRoy on March 11, 2020, 09:19:44 am

As a follow up, I have now used the mechanical iris in a table lamp, details are attached.

Geoff

Title: Re: An excercise in Scripting to help design and make a Mechanical Iris
Post by: EddyCurrent on March 11, 2020, 10:32:45 am

Nice looking lamp but quick time video is no good to me, can you save it in a more universal format ?

Title: Re: An excercise in Scripting to help design and make a Mechanical Iris
Post by: Bubba on March 11, 2020, 11:57:29 am

Nice lamp. Eddy VLC open Qt files.