Twisting a design, or creating a coil along a profile?

[carl.d.newton]

Hey guys,

Bit of a tricky one to explain here - I made a video using Screencast, but for some reason my audio is not captured.

0 - What I have

0:12 - How I made it

1:06 - The kind of shape I want to achieve (I generated a coil shape but I can't figure out how to make it follow the profile I created)

Essentially, I want what I have now, but for the whole thing to be "twisted" half a rotation.  I'm not sure if I need to somehow twist the body I have, or generate it differently.

Apologies if I mess up embedding the screencast, I've never done it before.

<iframe width="640" height="650" src="https://screencast.autodesk.com/Embed/Timeline/eafebd4e-87ba-4fc0-9cab-54f2bd3d8813" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen></iframe>

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/eafebd4e-87ba-4fc0-9cab-54f2bd3d8813

[jhackney1972]

I have embedded it for you.  Please attach your model of the forum users can look at it more closely.

If you do not know how to attach your model, open it in Fusion360, select the File menu and then choose Export and save the .F3D file to your hard drive. Then use the Attachments section of a reply forum post to attach it.

[wmhazzard · Accepted solution]

One way to do that would be to sweep a profile along a path and adding twist to it and then doing a revolve cut to get the side profile that you want. See attached model. 

[carl.d.newton]

Thanks so much, That helps a lot. I'm working through your steps now.

Is there an easy way to fillet the edges of all the faces, or is it a case of just selecting them all after the cut?

[g-andresen]

hi,

try this

günther

[wmhazzard]

Yes, fillet the edges of the first body before the circular pattern. 

[carl.d.newton]

Thank you so much everyone, I've been able to do exactly what I wanted to with your help. Brilliant! 🙂 I can't thank you enough.