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dakeb
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Thu Nov 25, 2004 7:56 pm Post subject:
3d helical sweep |
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anyone know how to do a helical sweep around a 3d trajectory (to simulate a
curly telephone cable)
thx,
Dave
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Jeff Howard
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Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:04 pm Post subject:
Re: 3d helical sweep |
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| Quote: | anyone know how to do a helical sweep around a 3d trajectory (to simulate
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curly telephone cable)
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You can use an x-vector VSS to create a construction surface (line swept
along trajectory, use the sketcher relation sd#=N*360*trajpar, where N =
number of turns, to dimension the line's angle relative a sketcher
reference), the edge of which will be the trajectory for your circular
section profile. |
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dakeb
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Thu Nov 25, 2004 9:18 pm Post subject:
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"Jeff Howard" <jeff4136@mindspring.com> wrote in message
news:Donpd.237$u81.189@newsread3.news.pas.earthlink.net...
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anyone know how to do a helical sweep around a 3d trajectory (to
simulate
a
curly telephone cable)
You can use an x-vector VSS to create a construction surface (line swept
along trajectory, use the sketcher relation sd#=N*360*trajpar, where N =
number of turns, to dimension the line's angle relative a sketcher
reference), the edge of which will be the trajectory for your circular
section profile.
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Thanks Jeff.
Somebody sent me a link to a ptc tutorial:
See
http://www.ptc.com/appserver/it/icm/cda/template_lib/multistep_textimg/main_v.jsp?im_dbkey=8460&icg_dbkey=382
Dave
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