helical curve tangent with straight line

[Anonymous]

I am trying to create a helix that is tangent to the straight lines shown above? Can anyone help with a workflow for this?

thanks in advance

[Anonymous]

I am trying to create a helix that is tangent to the straight lines shown above? Can anyone help with a workflow for this?

thanks in advance

[Frank-Oosterwaal · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This one is interesting! There might be a simpler way to achieve this but this is what I could think of. Look at the screencast. I also attached my part (2017 file). It has different dimensions but it's the same principle.

Hope it helps, good luck!

[Frank-Oosterwaal · Accepted solution]

Hi,

This one is interesting! There might be a simpler way to achieve this but this is what I could think of. Look at the screencast. I also attached my part (2017 file). It has different dimensions but it's the same principle.

Hope it helps, good luck!

[Anonymous]

cheers frank

haven't had time to try it as I'm now on an acad job 😞 but had a quick look at the screencast and it looks like what I am after...

thx!!

[Anonymous]

cheers frank

haven't had time to try it as I'm now on an acad job 😞 but had a quick look at the screencast and it looks like what I am after...

thx!!

[Frank-Oosterwaal]

Whoops, looked at my model again and made a mistake (see picture).

Ignore the splits of the helix and create a new helix after splitting the tangent arc, new part attached.

Good luck!

Edit: Now with part 

[Frank-Oosterwaal]

Whoops, looked at my model again and made a mistake (see picture).

Ignore the splits of the helix and create a new helix after splitting the tangent arc, new part attached.

Good luck!

Edit: Now with part 

[jeremy_wasserstrass · Accepted solution]

Attached is an alternate way of accomplishing this.

[jeremy_wasserstrass · Accepted solution]

Attached is an alternate way of accomplishing this.

[Anonymous]

thanks Jeremy, 🙂

[Anonymous]

thanks Jeremy, 🙂