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
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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





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