demakein 0.18

Design woodwind instruments and make them with a 3D printer or CNC mill.

Demakein is a set of Python tools for designing and making woodwind instruments.

This generally consists of two stages:

• The “design” stage is a numerical optimization that chooses the bore shape and the finger hole placement, size, and depth necessary for the instrument to produce the correct notes for a given set of fingerings.

• The “make” stage takes a design and turns it into a 3D object, then then cuts the object into pieces that can be CNC-milled or 3D-printed.

Demakein can either be used via the command “demakein” or as a library in Python. Demakein has been designed to be extensible, and I hope you will find it relatively easy to write code to create your own novel instruments. You can either create subclasses of existing classes in order to tweak a few parameters, or create wholly new classes using existing examples as a template.

See the README for detailed install instructions:

https://github.com/pfh/demakein

Home page:

http://www.logarithmic.net/pfh/design

Author:

Paul Harrison, [e-mail] or [e-mail]