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Substracting a coil from a pipe

Posted May 26, 2015, 11:44 a.m. EDT 2 Replies

Francis Ridgeon
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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

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2 Replies Last Post May 27, 2015, 4:40 a.m. EDT
Edgar J. Kaiser Certified Consultant
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Posted: 9 years ago May 26, 2015, 5:05 p.m. EDT
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
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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 -- Edgar J. Kaiser emPhys Physical Technology http://www.emphys.com

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Francis Ridgeon
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Posted: 9 years ago May 27, 2015, 4:40 a.m. EDT
Edgar,

That seems to have done the trick,
yeah I should utilise technical support,

thanks again
Edgar, That seems to have done the trick, yeah I should utilise technical support, thanks again

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