Good Morning Solidworks Users,
I have a question on modeling a part to support my quality control team at my company. I have to model a spring which has a variable pitch and a variable inner diameter of helix structure for every revolution. Added to this, i need to insert a straight which is equal to 1/8 * coil diameter and it must be tangential to both the adjacent helical arcs so that i can model a complete tangential helix structure. The straight must be inserted in the structure for every 180° revolution of the helix and the coil has 3 revolutions in total. Can this be done in Solidworks 2013?
I tried doing this and i'm not able to make the straights tangetial to the second adjacent helical curve. Help needed.
All valuable suggestions and inputs are welcome. I would be glad to have your support on this. Thanks in advance and have a great days ahead.
Regards
Sreenath Perumal Ganeshbabu
Sreenath
The "variable pitch and a variable inner diameter" part of your question makes me think your question needs more definition. Anyway, I expect you want to create all the straight line segments first and then connect them with splines. The "style" splines would work best for this, but since you have SW2013, you will have to make do with regular splines. I don't know more to say without learning more about those variables.
Dwight