rusty Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Hi, I was trying to create a simple spiral like the attached drawing...I can do it with a lot of work (do wizards primitives spiral twice and stitch splines across) but there must be an easier more elegant way. Imagination needed, LOL! Thanks, Rusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fuchur Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Hi, I was trying to create a simple spiral like the attached drawing...I can do it with a lot of work (do wizards primitives spiral twice and stitch splines across) but there must be an easier more elegant way. Imagination needed, LOL! Thanks, Rusty Have a look at the Primitive-Wizard. > Modelling-Window > > Wizards > Primitive See you *Fuchur* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Rodney Posted February 5, 2014 Admin Share Posted February 5, 2014 If the primitive wizard doesn't meet your requirements you can always roll your own spirals via the Duplicator Wizard (using the extrude setting rather than the copy setting of course). Here is a rough video (t is a variation on Robert Holmen's classic sea shell tutorial: Note that if you don't want any height in the spiral you simply leave the Y axis setting alone. In the video I create the spirals with height and then (in at least one instance) use Scale on the Y axis to decrease it. I use a simple spline line to create the spiral but other shapes work well too. Note that the real trick to success here is to have at least two spline objects on opposing sides of the Y axis. This way when the Duplicator wizard goes to work it will use the center between them as the point to revolve around. Disclaimer: You may want to download and view this in a video player that you can zoom in with because everything on screen is VERY tiny. creating_spirals_with_the_duplicator_wizard.mp4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Quick thought if you have the spiral path you should be able to extrude along the path increasing the size as you progress..on chromebook now will try it in AM and post later Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnl3d Posted February 6, 2014 Share Posted February 6, 2014 did a quicktrial with sweeper plug in path shape and swept object started 125% mid 60% end 5% make shape shorter when extruding should may small patches as well as more steps trialspiral.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rusty Posted February 6, 2014 Author Share Posted February 6, 2014 Wow, all this is fabulous! Thanks to all! Why didn't I think of these things??? Sometimes it's right in front of me and I don't see it. Now I have another challenge but I'll create a new post. It's to be used with the spiral though. Rusty Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hash Fellow robcat2075 Posted February 6, 2014 Hash Fellow Share Posted February 6, 2014 I wonder how the snail gets started on that very first segment with nothing to build it on? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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