Konradjustimagine
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Hello everyone,
I've been working on some practice parts recently and just completed a simple hand-wheel with some ribs as part of a book binding press project:
This part lead me to wonder how I might approach wrapping a Torus with some type of helical filament. Like this example I found with an image search:
The helix tool in Alibre seems to only want a straight axis to revolve around and doesn't seem to work with circular geometry. I'm curious if there is a work-around like creating a section of a helix then using a circular pattern to apply it around the torus or some other method.
Thanks for taking the time to read and consider this problem!
I've been working on some practice parts recently and just completed a simple hand-wheel with some ribs as part of a book binding press project:
This part lead me to wonder how I might approach wrapping a Torus with some type of helical filament. Like this example I found with an image search:
The helix tool in Alibre seems to only want a straight axis to revolve around and doesn't seem to work with circular geometry. I'm curious if there is a work-around like creating a section of a helix then using a circular pattern to apply it around the torus or some other method.
Thanks for taking the time to read and consider this problem!
