ysinitsyn Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 How to sweep the helix by 3D curve? For example a phone cord. Any ideas!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 Here's an example video, you can adjust the Helix parameters to get the coil you want. Sweep_by_Helix.7z Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted June 21, 2012 Author Share Posted June 21, 2012 Yes, this is I know. I mean something like this ps: sorry for my English Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted June 21, 2012 Share Posted June 21, 2012 No, there is no easy was to do something like that, we don't have a function to create a helix along a curve. I will move this to Enhancement Requests. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 OMG! IronCAD can do this. Important moments: - The orientation of cross section - Twist profile angle must be more then 360 Cord.ics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 WOW this looks promising but I cannot seem to duplicate. Any chnace you can create a short video? t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted June 27, 2012 Author Share Posted June 27, 2012 Done. Cord.avi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IronKevin Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Thank you ysinitsyn, You've taught us all a nice method, very nice indeed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmodi Posted June 27, 2012 Share Posted June 27, 2012 Thank you ysinitsyn for sharing with us bimal Done. Cord.avi 34163[/snapback] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jonas@Solidmakarna Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Great work Yaroslav, thanks a lot for sharing this! I have been asked this a few times and never been able to solve it. Until now!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dprodanic Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 I think this whens the best IronCAD tip of all time award ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) Do not mention it. I'm too very glad to found this "new" function. That is bad that I didn't know about it a couple month ago when tried to make several cords like this. ps: Tom, Where to go for a award? Edited June 28, 2012 by ysinitsyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tlehnhaeuser Posted June 28, 2012 Share Posted June 28, 2012 Yaroslav, For the award its only given in person, you need to come to New York ;-) BTW, how did you arrive at the angle number of 5440? t Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 (edited) Yaroslav, For the award its only given in person, you need to come to New York ;-) 34170[/snapback] D'oh! If I'm will be in New York, surely I will come.) BTW, how did you arrive at the angle number of 5440? 34170[/snapback] 360*15 = 5400 Where 15 - number of coils Edited June 28, 2012 by ysinitsyn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mwalls558626 Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 Nice!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhovatter Posted June 29, 2012 Share Posted June 29, 2012 for some reason I could not open the .avi file but looking at the .ics file ok. Looks great. I played with editing the guide curve and when I did the cross section became oval so I edited the shape and rotated the grid slightly and it became round again. wish I could see video. can you put it on you tube? Dallas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted June 29, 2012 Author Share Posted June 29, 2012 wish I could see video. can you put it on you tube? Dallas 34177[/snapback] No problem Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ysinitsyn Posted June 30, 2012 Author Share Posted June 30, 2012 I played with editing the guide curve and when I did the cross section became oval so I edited the shape and rotated the grid slightly and it became round again. Dallas 34177[/snapback] To avoid this problem need to use a Structured part. In this case, the alignment of cross section will be calculated automatically after edit the guide curve. Cord_structured.ics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cborer Posted June 30, 2012 Share Posted June 30, 2012 Cool! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhovatter Posted July 2, 2012 Share Posted July 2, 2012 Thanks works great. Dallas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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