Helix an existing body
No deformers like this exist in Fusion 360. If you want a helical structure you'll have to design it from scratch.
Perhaps you can share your model and we'll take it from there.
Is this a school project or an assignment ?
If it is an assignment, are your instructors OK with you asking for advise here on the forum ?
While I am looking at this, you should always make sure that you fully dimension and constrain your sketches - any least as an end goal - because otherwise it is very easy to break your design even by accident.
While this also is not the issue you want to resolve, you have several yellow highlighted icons in the timeline that should really be fixed before continuing.
If you execute etc Modify-> Compute all" command it'll show you the stuff shown in this screenshot.
Yep. Not a problem though, this is easy to fix 😉
As it pertains to the helix I need a little feedback before continuing.
If you twist the straight section it would also twist the little end sections where the twisted piece would normally plug into a staring section. So you probably need a number of different twisted sections.
Does that make sense ?
How much twist do you want it too have ?
Accepted solution
Looking at the video I have a better understanding what you are trying to do.
This cannot really be done 100% correctly in Fusion 360 but approximated somewhat.
To do this correctly it would require a variable helix function and that is way beyond Fusion 360's ability.
The problem is that when you start with a helix right from a straight section there will be a sharp edge. Hopefully this comes across in the image.
So what you need is a lead-in to that twist and on the second piece you'll need a lead-out back into the adjoining straight section.
This is just the first step, but there are number of other detail problems to solve, but one step at a time.
Look at the attached model and play the timeline step by step and see ho it is constructed. Play with the user parameters to get an understanding how this behaves.
