Synopsis
This design defines a basic solid closed spherical shape. Because the sphere is a solid, it inherits rules from the SolidMixin design, which includes typical mass properties associated with solid entities. The sphere design describes a closed solid that does not have any start or end angle parameters. The only required input for a sphere is its radius.
Parameters
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| radius | number | Radius of the sphere. |
| center | point | Center point of the sphere. |
Rules
| Name | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| bottomPoint | point | Point at location point(0,0,-radius) in the local reference frame, or center + vector(0, 0, -radius). |
| topPoint | point | Point at location point(0,0,radius) in the local reference frame, or center + vector(0, 0, radius). |
Example 1
| Name: | Sphere_Ex01 | |
| Design: | acDrawingDocument | |
| Name | Type | Formula |
| radius | number | 10 |
| thickness | number | 1 |
| depth | number | 5 |
| Child Name: | outerSphere | |
| Child Design: | :sphere | |
| Name | Type | Supplied |
| radius | number | Me.radius - Me.thickness |
| Child Name: | cuttingBlock | |
| Child Design: | :block | |
| Name | Type | Supplied |
| fTop | point | outerSphere.topPoint |
| width | number | Me.radius * 2 |
| length | number | Child.width |
| height | number | Child.width - Me.depth |
| Child Name: | result | |
| Child Design: | :booleanSolid | |
| Name | Type | Supplied |
| operation | name | :difference |
| components | list | {outerSphere, innerSphere, cuttingBlock} |
| color | string | "red" |