Coil Spring

[taffcad]

I am trying to develop a 3D coil spring. Do I use parallel circles and rotate,move them so they intersect at grips. Then trim make polyline and then use that as a path to extrude a circle. Or am I completely going down the wrong way. Any advice would be helpful

 

[hendie]

go to

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/index.php

and search for helix

http://www.resourcecad.com

~ for your CAD solutions

 

[ish2s]

Depending what software you are using with AutoCAD will make a difference in how easy it can be to accomplish.

Here is an example though just using AutoCAD

http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=26358