How to sweep the helix by 3D curve? For example a phone cord. Any ideas!?

Here's an example video, you can adjust the Helix parameters to get the coil you want.

Yes, this is I know.
I mean something like this
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ps: sorry for my English

No, there is no easy was to do something like that, we don't have a function to create a helix along a curve. I will move this to Enhancement Requests.

OMG! IronCAD can do this.

Important moments:
- The orientation of cross section
- Twist profile angle must be more then 360
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WOW this looks promising but I cannot seem to duplicate. Any chnace you can create a short video?
t

Done.
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Thank you ysinitsyn,

You've taught us all a nice method, very nice indeed.

Thank you ysinitsyn for sharing with us
bimal

Great work Yaroslav, thanks a lot for sharing this!
I have been asked this a few times and never been able to solve it. Until now!!!

+1

I think this whens the best IronCAD tip of all time award ;-)

Do not mention it.
I'm too very glad to found this "new" function. That is bad that I didn't know about it a couple month ago when tried to make several cords like this.

ps: Tom, Where to go for a award?

Yaroslav,
For the award its only given in person, you need to come to New York ;-)

BTW, how did you arrive at the angle number of 5440?

t

D'oh!
If I'm will be in New York, surely I will come.)


360*15 = 5400
Where
15 - number of coils

Nice!!!

for some reason I could not open the .avi file but looking at the .ics file ok.
Looks great. I played with editing the guide curve and when I did the cross section became oval so I edited the shape and rotated the grid slightly and it became round again.
wish I could see video. can you put it on you tube?
Dallas

No problem
http://youtu.be/FBwm-Xre1qg

To avoid this problem need to use a Structured part. In this case, the alignment of cross section will be calculated automatically after edit the guide curve.
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Cool!

Thanks
works great.
Dallas