Hi Rob, SketchUp is free 3D software with a (very) large following - I haven't really played with it yet but I'm sure it can cope with a helix (and more) - check it out here:
<http://www.google.com/sketchup/download/> They have lots of examples and you may even find a ready-drawn spring in their component libraries. Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 4:32 PM, Rob Phillips at r.phill...@murdoch.edu.au wrote: > > Hello everyone > > Can anyone suggest a way to draw a helix (coil spring). I want > something like the one at > http://www.eldoradosoft.com/images/3pi/track_planning/Helix13.gif but > with 5 or 6 turns. I don't have any 3D software, but I do have Adobe > Illustrator CS, Inspiration and Omnigraffle. > > I found I could trace shapes with bezier curves in omnigraffle, but it's > still not smooth enough. > > Any ideas? > > Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml> Guidelines - <http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml> Unsubscribe - <mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au>
