poor maths again

I'm trying to construct a small scad to produce 20 holes in a platform of increasing size of 0.05 whilst maintaining the same distance between adjacent hole edges.
this is what I have tried
difference(){
cube ([100,8,3]);
for (x= [1:5:100]){
for (y=[3.0:0.05:4.9]){
translate([x,3+y,-0.1]) cylinder(h=4,r=y+0.05);
}}

It will be obvious that for each value of x it produced all values of y, I only want 1 value of y for each value of x but y increased by 0.05.

My maths is so poor that I can't see how to do this.

Thanks for any help

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difference(){
  cube([100,8,3]);
  for(i=[0:19]){
    translate([1 + 5*i, 6+0.05*i, -0.1]) cylinder(h=4,r=3.05 + 5*i);
  }
}

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 10/11/2015 01:53PM by dc42.

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Thanks, I can see your approach, but it didn't work and even if it did I would end up with some big holes, when the maximum should be 5mm diameter
Just to clarify, the radius of each hole should increase by 0.05 and the distance between holes should increase by 0.05.

Holes should have a diameter in the range 3.0 to 5.0 in steps of 0.1mm.

Hope thats clearer
Thanks for your help.

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I am not sure if I understand exactly what you are trying to do. But if you are looking for this kind of object

here is how I constructed it:

module holes(
   n,     // number of holes
   r,     // initial radius
   step,  // increase step for radius
   gap,   // gap between holes
   height,     // height of holes
   ){
  translate([r,0,0])cylinder(r=r,h=height);
  if(n>1)translate([2*r+gap,0,0])holes(n-1,r+step,step,gap,height);
}

module BlockOfHoles(
   n,     // number of holes
   r,     // initial radius
   step,  // increase step for radius
   gap,   // gap between holes
   height,     // height of block
   margin,// margin outside holes
   ){
   difference(){
     cube([2*margin+(2*r+(n-1)*step)*n+(n-1)*gap,2*(r+(n-1)*step+margin),height]);
     translate([margin,r+(n-1)*step+margin,-1])holes(n,r,step,gap,height+2,$fn=24);
   }
}

BlockOfHoles(n=10,r=1,step=1,gap=0.5,height=10,margin=1);

In your case for holes ranging from 3.0 to 5.0mm with 0.1m increment step and 0.05mm gap, the call would be

BlockOfHoles(n=21,r=1.5,step=0.05,gap=0.05,height=3,margin=1);

@enif Thank you that will do nicely

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appjaws1
Thanks, I can see your approach, but it didn't work and even if it did I would end up with some big holes, when the maximum should be 5mm diameter
Just to clarify, the radius of each hole should increase by 0.05 and the distance between holes should increase by 0.05.

Holes should have a diameter in the range 3.0 to 5.0 in steps of 0.1mm.

Hope thats clearer
Thanks for your help.

Sorry, typo in 4th line. The final 5*i should be 0.05*i.

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@dc42 Thanks for this, I like a small solution but it's not quite right yet.
difference(){
cube([200,18,3]);
for(i=[0:19]){
translate([5 + 5*i, 6+0.05*i, -0.1]) cylinder(h=4,r=3.05 + 0.05*i);
}}

This is what I tried and as you can see the gaps between holes are reducing as the holes get larger. What I wanted was the gap between holes to remain the same.
difference(){
cube([200,18,3]);
for(i=[0:19]){
translate([5 + 10*i+3.05 + 0.05*i, 5+0.05*i, -0.1]) cylinder(h=4,r=3.05 + 0.05*i);
}}


Any thoughts?

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I think you need to increase the X coordinate quadratically. Something like this:

difference(){
cube([200,18,3]);
for(i=[0:19]){
translate([8 + 10*i + 0.1*i*i, 5+0.05*i, -0.1]) cylinder(h=4,r=3.05 + 0.05*i);
}}

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NumHoles = 20; // Number of holes
Gap = 2; // Gap between holes
First=5; // Radius of first hole
Increase=0.05; // Radius size increase per hole
Margin=5; // Border around block

HolesX=2*(NumHoles*First)+(NumHoles-1)*(Gap+NumHoles*Increase); // Total X length of holes
HolesY=2*(First+(NumHoles-1)*Increase); // Diameter of largest hole

difference()
{
translate([-Margin-First,-Margin-HolesY/2,0])
cube ([2*Margin+HolesX,2*Margin+HolesY,5]);
Holes();
}

module Holes()
{
for(i=[0:NumHoles-1])
{
translate([i*(Gap+2*First+i*Increase),0,-500])
cylinder(r=First+i*Increase, h=1000, $fn=20);
}
}

I thought I had managed to solve this but running it shows that the smaller the hole the larger the gap

gap=4;
difference(){
cube([200,18,3]);
for(i=[0:19]){
translate([gap*i+((3.05 + 0.05*i)*2)+((3.05 + 0.05*i+1)*2)+gap*i, 5+0.05*i, -0.1]) cylinder(h=4,r=3.05 + 0.05*i);
}}

This is yours which shows the smaller the hole the smaller the gap
gap=6;
difference(){
cube([200,18,3]);
for(i=[0:19]){
translate([8 + gap*i + 0.1*i*i, 5+0.05*i, -0.1]) cylinder(h=4,r=3.05 + 0.05*i);
}}

I'm just getting confused now, the solution lies somewhere in between but I can't see it

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appjaws1

I'm just getting confused now, the solution lies somewhere in between but I can't see it

My algorithm works fine (try it in my previous post): (NumHoles=total number of holes,First=first hole radius, Gap=gap between holes, Increase=radius increase in each hole size)

for(i=[0:NumHoles-1])
{
translate([i*(Gap+2*First+i*Increase),0,-500])
cylinder(r=First+i*Increase, h=1000, $fn=20);
}

Thank you Dave, perfect.

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