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coldby · 25th June 2006, 08:42 AM

Thanks folks, mostly for confirming that the Alzheimer hasn't had me yet

And, Dennis, thanks for Spiralizer - guess I'll have it downloaded and tested before the Sunday's over.
Anyway I muddled through by applying the old-fashioned trick (from the times of ruler and ink) of drawing a set of concentric circles with decreasing radii, deleting three quarters of each, rotating and assembling together the remaining arcs, drawing (manually!) a path along the vertices and then eventually extruding the cross-section along the latter. Pretty dirty indeed, and it took a helluva time - but the final result really looked like a spiral.

25th June 2006, 08:42 AM	#4
coldby Senior Member Professional user Join Date: Jun 2006 Posts: 102	Re: spiral spring: am I drawning in a glass of water? Thanks folks, mostly for confirming that the Alzheimer hasn't had me yet And, Dennis, thanks for Spiralizer - guess I'll have it downloaded and tested before the Sunday's over. Anyway I muddled through by applying the old-fashioned trick (from the times of ruler and ink) of drawing a set of concentric circles with decreasing radii, deleting three quarters of each, rotating and assembling together the remaining arcs, drawing (manually!) a path along the vertices and then eventually extruding the cross-section along the latter. Pretty dirty indeed, and it took a helluva time - but the final result really looked like a spiral.