Circular coil/spring tutorial | Autodesk Inventor

Quick and easy tutorial for modelling a circular spring/coil, spawned from a question regarding how to model a celtic band/rope.
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Incredible how this channel has been the only one to know exactly what I need!

[@jackmeher7766]

This is actually the best inventor channel. Can you do a video on representations.

[@jasonmulligan7059]

Thanks for your vids bro. I'm still learning so much appreciated. Keep em coming

[@fudizhang8842]

Will commend every single video u make. Amazing.

[@mode9444]

excellent tutorial, enjoyed it

[@ivanllopis5882]

This is 3D modelling porn! I hope you never stop making these videos. They're amazing! I'm seriously thinking about becoming a patreon, and give a bit from my part also. You certainly made a lot already! Lovely, just lovely.

[@Neil3D]

+Ivan Llopis thanks man much appreciated! No plans to stop any time soon, there's plenty to keep me going!

[@v93semme]

Hi TFI I relly injoy your Autodesk Inventor skills. I am a beginer but I will try to follow your teaching. Thanks again.

[@alexandersashko7838]

Thank you ,I'm used this technique for modeling cable.

[@Bill-ff2tt]

Nice video, would really like to see a review on the space mouse pro.

[@BlueRSX]

bloody brilliant! love your work ^_^

[@markthorne5026]

Great video, many thanks. Any chance you could to a tutorial on an adaptive torsion spring. I've been trying to figure it out but i could do with a few pointers.

[@star_light6352]

Thank you!!!) That's so helpful!

[@antonioramriez1057]

Absolutely the best Inventor tutorial, now can you make one more tutorial on a flat patter coil? using sheet metal, i have to manufacture one revolution at a time.

[@tyutje]

Hello!! I LOVE your tutorials! they helped me a lot. I now am pretty comfortable using inventor. Thank you for that! But I have one question! Can you maybe do a tutorial on the emboss tool? I would love to be able to use that tool, and understand what it does. :) Thank you!

[@user-nb3dj7vu2b]

Fantastic

[@makwix]

Cant thank you enough for this, my brain ache has just eased slightly :)

[@eddrm4685]

Very cool !!!

[@cobail1]

Absolutely the best Inventor tutorials I have seen. Learned actual tips rather than procedures. Can't recommend you enough to other students. Still can't understand all of your language though. Are you from South Africa?

[@MrHeck1993]

Awesome 👌🏼

[@gggraziano]

Hi, it's possible to replicate this shape also with Inventor 2015 with the same steps? Many thanks

[@musicstaions]

Thanks to you.

[@annazhao7688]

It is great!

[@berntinulkshredder]

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[@timobrien608]

Nice video. Thank you for making and sharing. I was hoping to use your circular helical spring as the basis for accurately forming worm wheel teeth. But any final swept profile that is not self- symmetrical seems to go really weird. Any suggestions or pointers would be most appreciated.

[@MarcelRobitaille]

Nice

[@jeremyfincher7284]

Fantastic stuff as usual!! Keep up the good work.BTW what is you signature tune and why do you play it for such a short time?

[@Neil3D]

+Jeremy Fincher Thanks! The music has changed recently, long story, copyright issues on copyright free music, but it used to be a track by K-391 called Sunshine... now it's a track by Deaf Kev called Invincible. It's quite a popular copyright free track, if you punch the name into KZbin you'll find it straight away, I've modified it slightly but it's free music. The reason it's so short is because the internet hates long intro's on videos! If the intro is any longer than roughly 10 seconds, people get irritated and switch off, so the shorter the intro the better for KZbin!

[@sefenpriputra4847]

Dear TFI, i've try step by step at inventor 2017, but always failure, can you advise ?

[@N2Khanh]

Hi ad ! How do drive spring in design spring in assemply ? Can you help me the video ! Tks !

[@DiphdatheFrog]

Is there a way to do that in Fusion 360? Cheers Diphda

[@douglasmichel6361]

Can this be done (only the first go round) using a .25” x .5” rectangle as the profile?2021

[@larryhill3976]

I'm using Inventor Pro 2014 and it will not let me select the point and the circle. Any suggestions, advice, etc..

[@m.a.4794]

Please I want to know how to make this kind of spring but with rectangular profile instead of a circular one. please help!

[@api9mm]

Whenever I use a Sweep Twist, the Appearance of textures are no longer the same. The appearances stretch and don't match on other non twisted components. Any solution?

[@pieterlalleman956]

Nice,.. maybe useful for the Invusion CAD Challenge #003 ,..First twist part of the challenge succeed, but struggling with the two other twist.I think this will work,.. let's try it out =)

[@carsonvessar3763]

Has anyone been able to recreate this with the modern version of Inventor, Every time I try to make the initial sweep command it shows an error about how a segment of the sweep path is tangent to the profile

[@StraitD2]

Can you update this one for Pro 2022? Is that possible? Specifically, i'm attempting to create a toroidal wire coil.

[@hunhs]

Dude I made this coil too followed your instructions, but it looks blocky and horrendeous when I render it, just like yours, why theres so few polygons, how to add poly count smth so it ends up smooth and superb

[@ronaldybanez395]

Why does when I use the helical or coil function to create spiral steel for a rebar cage "LAGS" after the execution to a point that I can no longer use inventor? I have a good rig specs. Thanks TFI.

[@paulm3702]

+TFI CAD Tips I tried this on my own and the sweep command wouldnt work, any thought as to why?

[@paultaylor-braddick6958]

+Paulll M make sure that that when you extrude the end point of the line that the line itself is not extruded. you can do this by turning it into a construction lie

[@mukeshgautam4431]

Dear sir when i making it same as you make..an erorr occured..its show ..path does not intersect profile..it is recommended that for best result the profile intersect the path.. What i do plz share reply

[@raymondgarrison6128]

Everything works out up to the point of getting the second work plane, It wont recognize the coil surface, meaning I can pick it Is it an Inventor 20 thing?

[@fransvanhouten7170]

great video. could you make a video how to make a pattern on a sphere so that the result becomes something similar as a Buckyball?

[@Neil3D]

+Frans Van Houten A whattyball?

[@fransvanhouten7170]

+TFI CAD Tips a buckyball is the name of a molecular structure. it's in the shape of a ball and is made out of carbon atoms.

[@Neil3D]

+Frans Van Houten I see, I see... I've already got that covered, I can't release a video on that until next week though as it's something new to Inventor 2017 but it'll make doing that kind of thing a whole lot easier!

[@fransvanhouten7170]

+TFI CAD Tips awesome, I'm looking forward to it.

[@borthelcash6046]

Any tips for managing thousands of repeated coils, or faking the effect? I have an interest in piano design, and sometimes I want to sketch out a piano scale once in a while. Always, except in exceptional cases, I have the task of creating copper-wound bass strings. On extra-low notes, it's manageable, at around 2k windings per note, and usually one string per note. However, on the thinnest bass strings, they can have upwards of 14 THOUSAND individual windings, and they always have at least two strings per note, sometimes more depending on the design, and polycounts quickly grow into the tens of millions. I've tried breaking up the coil into several sections, and have even considered parameterising this to work with feature suppression/iParts. I want to at least keep around 4 fps while all the bass strings are in view, and keep the geometry-calculation workload to a minimum.

[@Neil3D]

+borthelcash ' Do you actually need to physically model them coils though? Surely the coils are so small and fine that you wouldn't see the detail unless you're zoomed right in on it?

[@carbon273]

borthelcash 'use iparts. Watch his video on that

[@zoltanvaczi9318]

I don't know who you are but im gonna find you and thank you for this video.

[@Neil3D]

Well I don't know how to put this, but, I'm kind of a big deal... haha nah man thanks, sub to the channel and stick around, lots more to come!

[@zoltanvaczi9318]

I did so, only if i figured out earlier that there is such a channel

[@Tolkoum]

You can not do this in the 2017 HSM pro version, i repeat step by step every operation and each time it gives the same failure

[@Volpidash]

You might very well be the smartest person in the world.

[@GeneralPetey]

I follow it perfectly, last night I made it no worries but trying to make it today following the exact same steps I get the message: A segment of the sweep path is tangent to the profile (or is contained by the profile plane). Change the path geometry (e.g. make it perpendicular) so it is no longer tangent to the profile. How do I fix this?

[@smukkegreen]

Make the line vertical instead of horizontal. I had same problem in 2020. 🙂

[@GeneralPetey]

@@smukkegreen thanks for taking the time to reply, I realized that's what it was but I still have no idea why

[@smukkegreen]

@@GeneralPetey yeah, i also think it is wierd, since it works in 2018

[@erichcharters2778]

Celtic rope. Nice and artsy-fartsy. But... THIS IS USEFUL FOR REAL PARTS. Here's proof. A couple days after first watching this video, I was presented with the need (ok, an excuse) to model a part that has exactly this shape. It's a coil spring band used to reinforce a polymer shaft seal. I could have simply cheated and used a torus, but that's too painfully pragmatic for me. Ok, I'm American so, let's call ourselves top guns, CAD rock stars, or "I'm too cowboy for that." And I am. The only guy who shows up at an engineering office wearing boots and hat and big handlebar mustache. But when it comes to CAD modeling, I can't help myself - I just nerd out. BTW, We just don't say "baller" much over here. It's not a cool thing. Just think of the ball washers on a golf course. "Ladies?" Even the basketball meaning can be taken kind of bad, as a racist thing in that case, depending on context. I avoid it. Top gun, that's typical slang in the industry for a tatoo'd Harley biker kind of bad-ass CAD nerd. And, this tip is just the thing for Top Guns. Thank you. In NX10 I use similar kinds of tips and tricks, but there's 2 or 3 ways to do most things and it helps to think laterally. But Inventor is a little more like, "There's just-one-way and this is how it's done 'round here," and tips like this help us find it quickly. Thank you, Neil. These are great.

[@chiboreache]

Fusion 360 lack this func =( but like anyway

[@Neil3D]

+Imyach Fomilev Yah... Fusion 360... :-/ Still not getting why that thing exists and what it's purpose in life is!

[@chiboreache]

+TFI CAD Tips It's cloud(it always useful after system reinstall) and it have fresh and modern interface, some beginners have difficulties with start learning ugly programs like solidworks(or 3ds max/blender) for example. After a few weeks it is not a big deal of course, but for involving crowds creative people it is a very smart decision.