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Had to Google this one :-) Since SolveSpace has a helix tool that can "extrude" any sketch along a helix it should be doable.
by ruevs 6mo ago
Had to Google this one :-)
Since SolveSpace has a helix tool that can "extrude" any sketch along a helix it should be doable.
- contingencies 6mo agoPerhaps if the author makes a demo it would be a good showcase for how much better it is than the other open source tools!
- phkahler 6mo agoAfter looking at some videos of what this even is, I'd say it can do it but will likely fail on the boolean operation where the two spirals intersect. It might work fine but it's an operation likely to trigger a bug, and it would be sensitive to the exact placement/pitch of everything. Having said that, using the "force to triangle mesh" option solvespace will probably work fine. That should be sufficient for the home 3D printing crowd to make some fun stuff, but you won't be able to save a STEP file then. Just my guess as to how this might go.
- contingencies 6mo agoThanks for sharing your insight.