Wheel
2D/3D

• Wheel[point, rad] (2D) generates a Circle or Disk primitive (depending on the Faces setting) of radius rad centered at point.
• Wheel[point, rad, facets] (2D) generates a circular disk of radius rad, with facets segments on the perimeter, centered at point.
• Wheel[point, rin, rout, facets] (2D) generates an annular ring with the specified inner and outer radii.
• Wheel[axis, rad, facets] (3D) generates a circular disk with the axis vector of the disk defined by axis and the center of the disk located at the origin of axis.
• Wheel[axis, rin, rout, facets] (3D) generates an annular ring with the specified inner and outer radii.
• In all cases, rad may be replaced with a list {rx, ry} to produce an elliptical disk or an elliptical hole.

• Wheel returns a list of Mathematica graphics primitives that are functions of mechanism location variables.
• The perimeter of the disk is composed of facets straight line segments. Thus a facets value of 4 yields a square.
• In all cases, the radii may be replaced with a list {rx, ry} to produce an elliptical disk and/or an elliptical hole.
• In Modeler2D, an axis can be given in place of point for a faceted wheel, in which case the direction of axis is used as the reference direction for the Angle option and the primary axis direction for an ellipse.
• In Modeler3D, the reference direction of axis is always used as the reference direction for the Angle option and the local primary axis direction for an ellipse.
• The following options can be given:

• The Angle option allows a pie-slice of the entire wheel to be drawn.
• See also: Bar, Box, Facet, Sphere, Torus.

Further Examples

Load the Modeler2D package and define a simple model.

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Wheel is used to draw several disks, circles, segmented disks, and rings on the crank body. The absolute location of all the graphics depends on the rules returned by SolveMech.

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Change to the Modeler3D package and define a simple model.

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Wheel is used to draw several 3D disks on the crank body.

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See HelpModel2D, HelpModel3D.