Hi Rob, Further to my post (below), I found this ready drawn spring in the Google 3d warehouse:
<http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=e8891e76858a2a4b6fa3ef67 a69ab460&prevstart=0> And there are other examples here: <http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/search?q=spring&styp=m&btnG=Search> Hope that helps, Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 28/5/10 4:55 PM, Neil Houghton at n...@possumology.com wrote: > 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 -- 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>