Hi Bart,
I understand that you are trying to calculate the length of belt/cable from spool to spool.
Unfortunately there is no such built-in function which can directly determine the length of cable between the spools. However a custom MATLAB function can be written to calculate the same.
Here are certain assumptions based on the description:
- Firstly the distance between the spools is known.
- We know the radius of spool.
You can refer the following code and can modify it according to the use-case:
function calculateLength()
windings1 = n1; %number of times cable is wound on spool 1
windings2 = n2; %number of times cable is wound on spool 2
circumference1 = 2*pi*r1;
circumference2 = 2*pi*r2;
totalLength = (winding1)*2*pi*r1 + (winding2)*2*pi*r2 + d;
end
