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Possible to make a conical spring? (by Sam)
Hello,
I'm pretty new to parametric CAD design (even CAD in general) and just found SolveSpace a couple of days ago, but after a couple of days with SolveSpace I was already able to make a decent speaker model that I am pleased with.
I stumbled across making a toroid while trying to create the speaker and found a way to make a regular cylindrical spring, but I was curious:
Has anyone ever made or tried to make a conical spring?
I did a quick search and found this picture to show what I mean:
https://webshop.alcomexsprings.com/conical-springs
I had a small model of a batter holder I made in Blender and thought it would be nice to recreate it with a spring in it as well. I can always fall back to making an assembly of appropriate sized toroids, but I would definitely appreciate any thoughts or suggestions as a one piece spring would be much better.
I'm pretty new to parametric CAD design (even CAD in general) and just found SolveSpace a couple of days ago, but after a couple of days with SolveSpace I was already able to make a decent speaker model that I am pleased with.
I stumbled across making a toroid while trying to create the speaker and found a way to make a regular cylindrical spring, but I was curious:
Has anyone ever made or tried to make a conical spring?
I did a quick search and found this picture to show what I mean:
https://webshop.alcomexsprings.com/conical-springs
I had a small model of a batter holder I made in Blender and thought it would be nice to recreate it with a spring in it as well. I can always fall back to making an assembly of appropriate sized toroids, but I would definitely appreciate any thoughts or suggestions as a one piece spring would be much better.
(no subject) (by Daniel Engineering Solutions)
Sam,
Unfortunately I don't think a conical spring is a possibility right now. I know there's been some work on skewed extrusions but I don't think that's quite what you're looking for either.
Unfortunately I don't think a conical spring is a possibility right now. I know there's been some work on skewed extrusions but I don't think that's quite what you're looking for either.
(no subject) (by Sam)
Daniel,
I appreciate the response, it didn't seem like there was a specific way to do it but I thought I would ask. I can just make a few helices of varying sizes and then place them close to one another to perhaps give an illusion, but I may very well use some toroids in the same manner, but with spaces between them. It would just be graphical most likely anyway. Either way, have a great day.
I appreciate the response, it didn't seem like there was a specific way to do it but I thought I would ask. I can just make a few helices of varying sizes and then place them close to one another to perhaps give an illusion, but I may very well use some toroids in the same manner, but with spaces between them. It would just be graphical most likely anyway. Either way, have a great day.
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