Continue to Site

Welcome to MCAD Central

Join our MCAD Central community forums, the largest resource for MCAD (Mechanical Computer-Aided Design) professionals, including files, forums, jobs, articles, calendar, and more.

ring with wire

if the zig zag doesnt have sharp corners you could make a round datum curve and offset it twice, once in either direction to represent the maximum width.



create points in roughly the correct postions for the points on the zig zag on the two outisde curves using length ratio.

* you can tweak these positions later by using modify.

The create a curve thru these points.



You may have to create an extruded surface from the original ring and project the resulting zig zag curve on this because you cannot create a swept surface on a 3d curve.



This is hard to explain in text sorry if its confusing.

Mike
 

Sponsor

Articles From 3DCAD World

Back
Top