Extrude a cone along a spiral
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Hi,
I'm trying to draw what can simply be described as a cone along a spiral shape. The cone doesn't need to go to a point, just the radius of the starting circle needs to progressively get smaller along the extrusion.
So far I've only been able to get the "follow me" function to extrude a cylinder along the spiral. Many searches and a few ruby script downloads haven't helped...can you?
Thanks
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Make a cone with the Follow Me tool or with the 3D Shapes Tool http://rhin.crai.archi.fr/RubyLibraryDepot/Ruby/em_geo_page.htm, or draw a cylinder first and scale its upper surface uniformly about the center.
Then you can apply the Shape Bender, as suggested above, or FredoScale radial bend http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?f=323&t=17948&hilit=plugin
Or, depending on how "twisted" you want it to be, you can take a look at this one http://www.armanisoft.ch/webdesign/spiralizer/Spiralizer.html
Edit: if you are running the free version of SU7, and if you decide to use Spiralizer, you´ll need a plugin to import its .dxf files into SU http://sketchup.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=161784&&hl=en -
Thanks, I did wind up finding the "taper tool" elsewhere in this forum and that did the trick. I'll try these methods too...
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Taper tool is inside Fredoscale
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there's also taper maker plugin.
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For what you want to do, I think that the easiest ways are :
1 - draw metal
2 - pathface
3 - extrudeedgesbyface
4 - Extrude Edges by RailsA quick video of the differences between them :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8fA4TItuCA&feature=player_embedded
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