Join our MCAD Central community forums, the largest resource for MCAD (Mechanical Computer-Aided Design) professionals, including files, forums, jobs, articles, calendar, and more.
If I understand the question correctly... the answer is to insert a helical sweep, sketch the spline as your sweep profile, and finish it off with the desired pitch and section. Don't forget to add the axis of revolution.
It's going well. Advanced Pro/E plastic part design, creation, manipulation, deconstruction, and reconstruction. My training is paying off! I'm thinking about sheetmetal for next year...
Yes you can with the variable section sweep feature.
Sketch you spline as a sketch
Select it and start variable section sweep.
Click on sketch icon in dashboard.
draw a line from the center point at an angle to horizontal reference. Make sure you've got an angle dimension. dimension the physical length of the line. Create a relation in the sketch where the dimension(angle) = trajpar * 360* number of coils. ( look in help files for example)
trajpar takes the length of the curve and gives it a value of 0 at start and 1 at the end.
So at the start it will be 0*360*n which is 0.
as value changes over curve from 0 to 1, your angle of the line will change.
select the helical sweepoption and fix the attributes as u like. select sketching plane and draw sweep profile (straight or as u like) and give dimensions, give the pitch value(the proecalculated and sweep the section with respected to sweep profile height) then draw the cross section of the sweep
This site uses cookies to help personalise content, tailor your experience and to keep you logged in if you register.
By continuing to use this site, you are consenting to our use of cookies.
