Spiralled worm conveyors

[Guest]

Hi - Just jumped on the VW wagon with V12. Thus very fresh to VW and asking to be a little patient with "stupid" questions.

Some brilliant tools in VW but looking for a way and means to make spiralled worm conveyors. Other programs have the ability where you just give a Dia/Pitch/Length/Turn Amounts etc and/or Variable Dia and it does the rest.

How can it be created in VW ?

Thank You, CLB

Edited December 15, 2006 by clb

[islandmon]

Check your Plug-ins for the HelixSpiral & HelixSpiralMenu Tools.

If there, then confirm that they're in your current Workspace.

Use the HelixSpiral Tool to create a NURBS Path with the necessary parameters "Radius/Pitch/StartAng/Turns",

then create a suitable profile and 'Extrude Along Path'.

Takes some getting used to but it works.

[Guest]

Very much appreciated

But can you go through the path to that "Plug-In" for me more precisely please.

TX

CLB

[islandmon]

Look for 'Plug-Ins' within your installed Vectorworks Directory ( folder).

[matto]

The other option would be the sweep command.

Which sounds like a similar low tech option to the spiral.

But has the advantage that it sweeps the profile in one go. and you can go back and edit the profile or the sweep settings at any time