Helical Volute - How to finish this drawing
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Sketchup file of helical voluteYou can see my previous post about how to draw clock ornamentation. With the help of Davidheim I figured out that the name of what I was trying to draw was a helical volute. There is next to nothing about drawing volutes in sketchup anywhere that I have searched or look. I am having trouble finishing to of the pieces of the included volute.
I have drawn the spiral with the help of the plugins CurveMaker and Fredo6 Curviloft, but I cannot figure out how to make the eye (cylinder) top match the compound curve of the volute. I am trying to match the drawing to the picture included. The helix is drawn with the ionic volute.
Secondly, not sure how to proceed to draw the curve that fills the inside of the helix like shown in the picture.i have tried some variations using extrude along rails but have not made what look right.
Help and ideas would be appreciated
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here is a better picture of the original volute
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For a nice clean mesh I would work with curviloft. In that case you need to create a few curves before connecting them. Give it a few trials and it will work alright.
For a fast result I would do the raw shape and the smooth with artisan.
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Elisei Appreciate the drawings. What and how did you create the internal curves. I am going to have to recreate these with my CNC router and if you look at the volute the top of the eye is not a dome but a flat surface into blending into the edge of the spiral of the volute. Look at the second picture from the bottom. I have to recreate the exact 3d representation of this detail. That same detail is missing from the center piece volute. The detail and curve in the Z-axis if very important in reproducing this clock ornamentation.
Any other help or ideas are appreciated.
Thanks DrPhil
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Here is my modifications of Elisei drawing of the volute. Still not quite happy with the flat top. some odd lines and curves with the smoothing. Still need to tweak the drawing.Any other ideas??
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Your model has a lot of inside faces which gives you that nasty subdivisio.
I have drawn the curves with Curvizard or Bezier curves. Then you connect them with curviloft.
Also you can used Bend plugin to create that volute.
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