topic Re: Coil onto a helical path in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Coil onto a helical path

C.FOTI — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 14:57:27 GMT

Is it possible to have a coil follow a helical path? In the picture attached, I'd like the straight coil to follow the path of the helix. Having searched the forums, I don't see anything for Fusion. Can this be done in Fusion?

Re: Coil onto a helical path

HughesTooling — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 15:19:48 GMT

The best way is to use sweep in the patch workspace. See attached file.

Mark

Re: Coil onto a helical path

HughesTooling — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 16:00:43 GMT

I tried to pipe the last file I uploaded and Fusion fails. Reducing turns on both helixes doesn't seem to help either. I made the first helix a smaller diameter and less turns on the second and got it to work in the attached file but it is not that robust. Sure this used to work better.

Mark

Re: Coil onto a helical path

C.FOTI — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:42:20 GMT

Thanks, Mark @HughesTooling . The 2nd pic is generally the shape that I'm after, with some tweaking. However, I may have forgot to mention that I need this to be shelled, so the feature will be hollow (like a straw). Hopefully that's not the straw breaking the camel's back 🙂

Re: Coil onto a helical path

HughesTooling — Fri, 02 Apr 2021 18:58:56 GMT

@C.FOTI wrote:

Thanks, Mark @HughesTooling . The 2nd pic is generally the shape that I'm after, with some tweaking. However, I may have forgot to mention that I need this to be shelled, so the feature will be hollow (like a straw). Hopefully that's not the straw breaking the camel's back 🙂

Pipe does have an option for hollow and it works on the second file.