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Substracting a coil from a pipe
Posted 26 mag 2015, 11:44 GMT-4 2 Replies
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Hi,
I am building a barrel to wind a wire on to.
The helix i defined with the primitive geometry
The barrel wire is mounted on, i have swept a square work plane along a parametric equation, of the helix.
To make the barrel i just then defined two cylinders,
thought i could just use use a boolean operator to subtract the square cross section helix.
Please find attached,
Many thanks
I am building a barrel to wind a wire on to.
The helix i defined with the primitive geometry
The barrel wire is mounted on, i have swept a square work plane along a parametric equation, of the helix.
To make the barrel i just then defined two cylinders,
thought i could just use use a boolean operator to subtract the square cross section helix.
Please find attached,
Many thanks
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2 Replies Last Post 27 mag 2015, 04:40 GMT-4
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Posted:
9 years ago
Francis,
this issue is indeed a bit strange. I was curious and played a little. This is what I did:
- In the workplane and in the Parametric Curve: Make the helix a little bigger, r = 1.01, to avoid the lateral edges touching the cylinder surface
- In the Sweep in Advanced Settings: Change Geometry reprentation from Spline to Bezier.
This all should not be required in my opinion. It should work as you had set it up. Might be a question to the support.
I am attaching my modifications.
Cheers
Edgar
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Edgar J. Kaiser
emPhys Physical Technology
www.emphys.com
this issue is indeed a bit strange. I was curious and played a little. This is what I did:
- In the workplane and in the Parametric Curve: Make the helix a little bigger, r = 1.01, to avoid the lateral edges touching the cylinder surface
- In the Sweep in Advanced Settings: Change Geometry reprentation from Spline to Bezier.
This all should not be required in my opinion. It should work as you had set it up. Might be a question to the support.
I am attaching my modifications.
Cheers
Edgar
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Edgar J. Kaiser
emPhys Physical Technology
www.emphys.com
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Posted:
9 years ago
Edgar,
That seems to have done the trick,
yeah I should utilise technical support,
thanks again
That seems to have done the trick,
yeah I should utilise technical support,
thanks again