DBC
Senior Member
Hello Harold,
well it took me less than 30 min. from reading to posting...i had to hurry, wife was waiting with dinner ;-)
I'll try:
The Turn density represents a value of how many wraps will be done. Greater values will make the coil wraps tighter, but too much and the "helix" will intersect itself...
The Major Helix Width Scale is a value which is calculated with a cosine and starts at a "radius" of "x"-model units.
The Loop Scale is the diameter of a wrap of the coil, also given in medel units
HeightScale was used in the original slinky to give the slinky a "length". As far as the coil is on the same plane/level the "length" is not needed.
The Angle increment is used for the accuracy of the wraps.
The wire diameter should speak for itself and is also in model units ;-)
So if you use the prefilled values and you edit the path sketch, you should be able to measure the distance between the start point of the helix and the z-axis. It should show as Loop Scale + Width Scale in model units = 1 + 2 = 3 (for me mm, for you maybe inch)
Regards
Stefan
Hello Don,
It was a pleasure for me.
Regards
Stefan
Thanks for supplying field definitions Stefan, and thanks again to everyone who participated in this little adventure. Amazing what can happen when a group of folks come together with a common interest.