occidental tourist Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 just used solidworks this afternoon to draw a screw part by extruding a cylinder then creating a spiral around the extruded cylinder and making a triangle shape defining the removal profile and using the cut command along the spiral. It was pretty cute and I though maybe I'd been missing something but couldn't find a spiral or similar command in vectorworks when I got back to my computer. So I tired searching the board here for "spiral" with no results. So I'm wondering if there is a tool or method I'm missing for drawing hardware with a spiral thread. Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 yep! Create Helix Spiral. Works great Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Yes, Model>3D PowerPack>Create Helix Spiral Just select a 2d line to start (defines height of the helix) Explore the pitch option for tapers controlled by start and end radii. Helix can be a path for EAP. -B Quote Link to comment
Benson Shaw Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Man I am slowest keyboarder on the Community Board!! -B Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Benson, if it helps We could all start counting to 10 before we send. JK:) Quote Link to comment
occidental tourist Posted January 17, 2012 Author Share Posted January 17, 2012 sorry, realize it is not in my profile but I'm using an old version on a mac ( 9.5.3 ) Cannot find create helix spiral. The only spiral tool is in the 2D tool box for spiraling out in a two dimensional way. I have found that the sweep tool offers a spiral setting. So the question I have bearing the foregoing in mind is, can I use a sweep to cut a cylinder that represents the body of the fastener? one supposes as an alternative that I could create the sweep as a positive using a radius so that it was empty at the smaller diameter of what would be uncut or unrolled diameter of the fastener. I'll try playing with this this evening but if anyone has any suggestions or recollections related to this version or method that would help I will, of course be appreciative, and am flattered that folks seem to be falling over how fast they can key in answers to my humble questions. thanks brian Quote Link to comment
michaelk Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 It is possible to do it like that. This discussion might be helpful: http://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=135607 mk Quote Link to comment
Bryan G. Posted January 17, 2012 Share Posted January 17, 2012 Occ Tourist, Could you post your profile? It would help for future questions. Quote Link to comment
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