Coil onto a helical path

C.FOTI
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Coil onto a helical path

C.FOTI
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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?

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

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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.

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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 🙂

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@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.

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