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how to model spiraling flat surfaces?

acadadmin3KNUF
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how to model spiraling flat surfaces?

acadadmin3KNUF
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Please see the attached file.  I have a 90-degree-turn, flat-level conveyor bed modeled in flat surfaces.  I also need this modeled as a spiral-up bed.  The file has the line geometry needed, but I can't successfully make opaque, solid-surfaces.  Is what I want even possible?

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Kent1Cooper
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For the channel stringers, LOFT worked for me, using the Path option and one of your Splines for the path:

Kent1Cooper_0-1688069144490.png

I would suggest a Helix path instead, though.

You should be able to build the end shapes for the "bed" part, between the stringer ends at top and bottom, and do the same.

EDIT:  I tried it -- see the attached.  The Helix paths are in magenta color, along the lower corners of the stringer parts.  Aside from my leaving in place the end pieces that I Lofted between, I think I got the equivalent along a spiraling path of your flat one.  It's located with the center of the spiral at the origin because moving your Spline-based spiral arrangement there was how I figured out what the radii should be.

Kent Cooper, AIA

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OK I confess...I totally "cheated."  I suddenly realized I could simply export my INV files to ACAD, explode the blocks and get the surfaces that way :cara_que_ríe_con_la_boca_abierta_y_los_ojos_sonrientes: 

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