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Insert --> Helical sweep, Select a datum plane, Sketch a centre line and a continuous line for defining the spring length and coil radius, Give done, Then give the pitch valuu, Then draw the cross section.
For a "square" spring, create a square extruded cylinder. Along the center of the squre extrusion trajectory use a VSS and sweep a straight radial line. Use TRAJPAR in the sketcher relations to make the single line trace out a corkscrew. Create a curve at the intersection of the two features. That is the trajectory of your square spring. Use a regular sweep along that trajectory.
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