Helix

Creation of helix geometry. The entity created is a single curve.

Creation of Helix

The dynamic creation is done by clicking 3 points:

• The first point is the center of the helix. You can click on the screen or enter coordinates in the dialogue area.

• The second point gives the position of the helix entry point.

• the third point determines the radius value. This value can be defined also in the dialogue.

Then define the helix characteristics in the dialogue: you can enter or modify the radius value. You can also pick a value in the screen with the pipette. You can switch to Diameter with the small black triangle!
	define the starting angle of the helix.
define the step size and the number of steps finally define the direction of rotation, CounterClockWise or ClockWise.

Application

This helix can be very useful in following cases:

• it can be the backbone for the design of solids (extrude along path for instance)

• it can be a drive profile used with 5X simultaneous operations

• it can be selected for machining with a manual operation (contouring) but calculated in tool center (no offset)