artillery_range_table

Python GUI tool to generate simplified range table for artillery.

Trajectories are computed assuming dry, ICAO standard atmosphere up to 80 km, on a non-rotating Earth. Projectile drag modelled using similitude factor to the 1943 drag curve for rotating projectiles.

Instruction

Run GUI Independently

On Windows machines, download the latest executable from the release channel.

Install & Run as Python library

Without GUI

Ensure Python (version >= 3.9) is installed. Clone this repository, and run:

pip install .

Then, in Python programs, the scripts may be imported as:

from exterior_ballistics import trajectory, rangetable

With GUI

If it is desired to use the graphical user interface, run:

pip install .[gui]

The script's entry point is:

rangetables

Dependencies

Core dependency includes:

• tabulate for outputting range table.

GUI script additionally requires:

• ttkbootstrap for bringing the tkinter GUI up to modern sensibilities.

Generating Binary requires:

• auto-py-to-exe which wraps pyinstaller to generate one-file self extracting executable on Windows machines.

Development

Additional requirements for development:

• black for code formatting.
• auto-py-to-exe for generating windows executable.