how to make starting point for Coil?

Anonymous

how to make starting point for Coil?

Anonymous
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Hi,

 

I need to draw coil, but I can not find change the starting point of spiral coil.

I want to make starting point from this yellow point.(looking at the below picture) but there is no option for this.

should I make coil first then rotate it using MOVE command?

 

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davebYYPCU
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Yes, that’s all you can do.

 

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Anonymous
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That's too sad..

Thanks for your answer!

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procyonmessen
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the only way i know of is by rotating your intire model to the fixed starting point of the coil.

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thomas.vanek
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For everyone finding this via search-engine, like I did, I solved it by first creating the coil as a new body, then rotating the new body to the desired starting-point and finally joining the two models together.

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mattb1969
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Sorry, your situation does not work in the current version of the software.

 

 As I try to rotate it, the shape of the spiral changes and when I click ok, I get Compute Failed - The operation could not heal the edited region of the model.

 

 Any other suggestion?

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HughesTooling
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@mattb1969 wrote:

Sorry, your situation does not work in the current version of the software.

 

 As I try to rotate it, the shape of the spiral changes and when I click ok, I get Compute Failed - The operation could not heal the edited region of the model.

 

 Any other suggestion?


The shape changing sounds strange. Are you selecting the body or a face to rotate? Selecting the body should work and should work if you select one of the end faces as well. What are you selecting and can you show an image of what you're working with?

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mattb1969
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hi,

I have just figured it out.

When selecting Move/Copy, it was automatically selecting faces and not bodies. Once I changed it to selecting bodies, It worked as expected.

thanks for your help.

M

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ceggertson
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I have a coil cut, so the rotate body solution does not work, but since the cut is open on one end, I just set an offset plane as the reference and added an additional fraction of a revolution as necessary to get the right start and end angles.

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fifakraus
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I was going crazy trying to redefine the plane for an existing coil.
Turns out that might not be possible, so it's necessary to create a new coil in such case.
Pretty annoying, as the references then must be replaced too.

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