Constructive CAD modeling

Hand-authoring control points (as in Your first B-spline) does not scale. pantr.cad builds B-spline geometry the way a CAD kernel does: primitives (lines, circles, disks, cylinders) combined by operations (extrusion, revolution, ruled surfaces, sweeps, Coons patches) and assembled with join. Every result is an ordinary Bspline, so it supports evaluation, derivatives, and the knot operations from the previous tutorial.

This tutorial builds a few shapes and lays them out in one scene; the Constructive Solid Geometry guide is the complete reference for the module.

from pantr import viz
from pantr.cad import (
    create_circle,
    create_cylinder,
    create_extrusion,
    create_line,
    create_revolution,
    create_ruled,
)
from pantr.transform import AffineTransform

Primitives

A cylinder is a rational surface; rendering uses exact Bézier cells.

cylinder = create_cylinder(radius=0.5, height=1.5)
viz.plot(cylinder, color="lightsteelblue", show_knot_lines=True)

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

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Extrusion: sweep a profile along a vector

Extruding a circle along +z produces a tube wall.

tube = create_extrusion(create_circle(radius=0.5), displacement=[0.0, 0.0, 1.2])
viz.plot(tube, color="wheat", show_knot_lines=True)

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

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Revolution: spin a profile about an axis

Revolving a slanted line about the z-axis gives a cone-like surface of revolution.

profile = create_line(p0=[0.2, 0.0, 0.0], p1=[0.6, 0.0, 1.0])
surface_of_revolution = create_revolution(profile, point=[0.0, 0.0, 0.0], axis=2)
viz.plot(surface_of_revolution, color="thistle", show_knot_lines=True)

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

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Ruled surface between two curves

A ruled surface linearly interpolates between two curves – here two circles of different radius at different heights, giving a conical frustum.

bottom = create_circle(radius=0.7, center=[0.0, 0.0, 0.0])
top = create_circle(radius=0.3, center=[0.0, 0.0, 1.0])
frustum = create_ruled(bottom, top)
viz.plot(frustum, color="lightgreen", show_knot_lines=True)

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

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An assembled scene

Lay the shapes side by side by translating each (transforms are covered in Affine transformations) and adding them to one Scene.

scene = viz.Scene()
for i, geom in enumerate([cylinder, tube, surface_of_revolution, frustum]):
    placed = geom.transform(AffineTransform.translation([2.0 * i, 0.0, 0.0]))
    scene.add(placed, show_knot_lines=True)
scene.show()

Static Scene

Interactive Scene

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