virusxp Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 Can someone advise me how to change the slope line (red) shaoe part as helical shape part? I have no idea on how to modifidy this part Thank you very much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 shaoe part as helical shape part? I have no idea what this means, can you eloborate? Can you roll up the feature tree, zip and attach the file here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bhamze Posted August 4, 2011 Share Posted August 4, 2011 It's hard to tell from your description but I would try the move face command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virusxp Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 The red shaft will rotate, while the shutter (grey) will move to-and fro (up & down). I attached the picture & SW files. In this way, the shutter seems to be easily worn out as it is straight slope, so I would like to change to helical shape. shutter.sldprt main-shaft.sldprt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Create a helix curve. Sweep a line as a surface along the curve. Replace the inclined face with the helical surface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lazer Posted August 6, 2011 Share Posted August 6, 2011 Welcome to the forum virusxp, I removed the HELP! you placed in the title and renamed the title for you:wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted August 8, 2011 Share Posted August 8, 2011 this part might be a good candidate for the Deform tool. There are several ways you can alter this. If you really just want to change the planar face to an arc i would simply draw your new shape and extrude it. is this what you are trying to do? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virusxp Posted August 9, 2011 Author Share Posted August 9, 2011 Thank you!! but is it a helical shape in the above picture ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shift1313 Posted August 9, 2011 Share Posted August 9, 2011 (edited) okay i think i understand what you are trying to do now. can you modify the main shaft? the issue you have now is the width of the area where the main shaft meets the shutter, it wont allow much of a helical path. Do you have a spec for how much you want this part to rotate. 90degrees? edit: i gave it a little thought and i think you will need to do more than just alter that face for something like this to be functional. i would probably avoid using the Helix command and probably use Sweep in this case. You can sweep along a straight line(axis) and twist along that. As it stands now, what actually retains the shutter on the shaft. I guess i need a little more info about the mechanism. Here is a pic showing the twist along path sweep. Edited August 9, 2011 by shift1313 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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