Demo EU plot points

[Adambar24]

Hi,

I am unsure who extracted the coordinate points for the demo EU model but I may have a way of reducing the thickness of any arbitrary shape, with an arbitrary set of coordinate points. I have currently got it working on the EU demo blanket region though it would perform better with more coordinate points from the diagram in the picture. I feel this would also blend nicely into the current issue #302. Since I plan on using the adjusting thickness to cut new layers out of the blanket. Thus creating a multilayer blanket. Would it be possible to extract more coordinate points across from the diagram in the paper that was used? Since one problem I am having is with the spline type connections. When I create a thinner layer the spline style points naturally curve giving a larger thickness at the points which are far apart. With more points we could approximate the curve with many straight type points meaning we should linear compression everywhere.

The two pictures below show the blanket at full size and then again at half thickness

[shimwell]

That does sounds like a nice feature.

The points are just extracted from a publicly available image as described in the doc string

I don't remember but perhaps this digitizer was used.

You are welcome to add some more points via a PR.

I think it is best if we continue to make use of the public image and avoid extracting points directly from any priority CAD models.

Although if Eurofusion are ever interested in having a more accurate model integrating into Paramak then they are welcome to make their CAD models open and then I guess we could reproduce more correctly and make the models parametric.

[Adambar24]

Thanks @shimwell will have a look how that digitizer works. I wish that they would release their CAD models its a shame they aren't already open to all

[Adambar24]

Ok, so I have the layer maker working for the blanket section at the least. It can handle any amount of layers (there will be a point when the layers wont compress anymore), and any thickness of the layer. The down side is that the thickness can only be relative to the total thickness of the shape. This is because the shape can be different thicknesses at different points. I have put some example in pictures below. One is cut into quarters and the other a random amount of layers all different thicknesses. I think once I get more coordinate points the model will work much better. I believe the spline type it affecting the increasing the thickness at smaller increments.