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Arunvigneshram 
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Joined: 06.Oct.2018 Location: India Using: Solidworks and AutoCAD Status: Offline Points: 3 |
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Can someone give me a general idea on how to model the twisted ribbon as shown in the image below?
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philippe JOSEPH
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Joined: 14.Mar.2011 Location: France Using: AutoCAD Mechanical 2017 Status: Offline Points: 1069 |
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Posted: 06.Oct.2018 at 20:34 |
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Hello Arun, your ribbon is very special, what is it in the real life ?
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Hello Philippe Joseph, thanks for your reply. Yes this ribbon is metal piece inserted into a pipe to change melting and solidifying properties of a Phase Changing Material that I'm studying. I have other types of inserts which were easy enough but I'm struggling a bit with modelling this one. This was already modelled by someone whose information I can't access, So I'm just curious on how they would have modelled this. I can think of a few long complicated ways of doing this,but I want to see if there's any elegant way of modelling this without going into too much trouble which will lead to many confusions and complications.
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philippe JOSEPH
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Posted: 06.Oct.2018 at 21:45 |
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Hello again, for the ribbon in itself I would use the LOFT command between 2 rectangles correctly located in 3D and then do some material removal with the command SUBTRACT for the notches.
With the command LOFT the ribbon will be with facets I think and I'm wondering if the command SWEEP along an helix can be applyable here for a smoothed result ( or only for surfaces and not solids ) because I don't have AutoCAD here at home; I would only try it monday morning.
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Kent Cooper
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Posted: 12.Oct.2018 at 16:30 |
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You can get a SURFACE shaped like that with LOFT between two concentric HELIXes:
 The red edges are the Helixes; the grey Surface in between is the result of LOFTing between them. That has no thickness, though -- I'm not sure how to turn it into a SOLID with some actual thickness, from which you could SUBTRACT something for the notches.
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Posted: 12.Oct.2018 at 19:01 |
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Hello Kent, in fact I have not finished it but I'm building a ribbon with an extruded rectangle along an helix path or more precisely the union of 2 rectangles along 2 helixes.
I have to verify by "playing" with the parameters of the result in the properties palette ( Ctrl+1 ).
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Kent Cooper
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Not between just 2 of them, but an approach that worked for me was to draw a long skinny rectangle, copy it upward multiple times, rotate each copy successively more to create the twist, and then LOFT through the stack of them. I did them at a distance apart about the same as the length of the rectangle, and at 30-degree successive rotations -- I don't know how large the angle can be and still work right, but 90-degree rotation gave a very different kind of result. That gives a real Solid, rather than a Surface as in my previous reply. What I haven't found a good way to do yet is to position little Solids appropriately for Subtracting to make the notches -- ARRAYPATH seems likely, but I haven't found the right combination of options and initial orientation to get them to align in the right way.
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philippe JOSEPH
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Posted: 12.Oct.2018 at 19:44 |
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Or maybe we are going to loose our mind because Arunvigneshram is just teasing us with his Solidworks ans we are working with AutoCAD and not Inventor or an other product.
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Posted: 13.Oct.2018 at 10:58 |
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A sequence of commands: Helix Loft Sweep Subtract Thicken Results.  |
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philippe JOSEPH
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Posted: 13.Oct.2018 at 11:05 |
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Seant you are number "ONE", tell us more !!!!!!!!!!!!
Eventually a "step by step" drawing ? I suppose that LOFT is like Kent's method : LOFT between 2 concentric helixes, and then ... I suppose that THICKEN is what Kent what waiting for or his next step.
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