Fusion 360 - Creating ribs/rings on fishing lures

Using a helical sweep to create ribs/rings on fishing lures.
There are quite a few videos on KZbin showing fishing enthusiasts designing fish bait using Fusion 360. In a lot of these designs, you would see a series of rings or ribs along the length of the body. So I thought maybe I can give this a try and offer my own interpretation.
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0:00 Intro
0:31 Problem with using pattern
3:30 Helical sweep
5:49 Final example
7:42 Potential problems

[@adambergendorff2702]

I love the way you even showed the failed attempts, thats usually where I get completely disgusted because it takes me way to long to find a solution.

[@jonaxi1]

thank you very much you explain in such a way that even for a novice like me can understand

[@mattinkel7342]

I love how clear your explanations are... your videos help greatly.. I did your Speaker grill a couple of weeks back and learned a lot.

[@drbishy_hao]

You exploration and explanation will surely help us to explore more. Amazing trips and tricks..thanks a lot...

[@kurtlindner]

I don't make many fishing lures (0 so far), but I do love this method for adding a tapered thread.

[@WMBayouLures]

Thanks for sharing this! There is one problem with this technique for lure design, the corkscrew could introduce a spin on the lure if it catches enough water. You typically don't want a spin on this type of lure which is why we make them straight with the pipe command. Love your tutorials, they have helped me so much!

[@Fusion360School]

Wow....I have never thought about that. It does make sense that a helix would spin through water. Thanks for letting me know. I guess we would have to wait for Autodesk to allow us to select multiple paths for pipes!

[@hillfortherstudios2757]

I would've never thought of that method! Very cool, thank you!!!

[@ianpendlebury3704]

Yet another imaginative solution. Both your videos, and presentational, style are outstanding. Thanks.

[@learobinson]

Your videos are so good, I've learnt a lot from you. Highly appreciate your work

[@Fusion360School]

Thanks for the kind words and thank you for the support!

[@paulzacharias5784]

Fantastic!

[@baconlube]

Autodesk should be paying you bigtime.

[@truegret7778]

Thank you for this solution. My experience has been in creating the rib along a spiral path on a cone seems to work for a circular profile, and rectangular profile, however when trying to use an ellipse, the ellipse spins or twists along the path. The approach I took though was a little different - I will try this and edit my comment. [edit] - Thank for showing this method! I managed to create the necessary shape (a circular helical shape on the inner and outer face of a conical body), by making the sweep twice, once for each surface. My project/model was needed to hang a star onto our Christmas tree (the star has a helical spring shaped like a cone).

[@santosknives6278]

Absolutely amazing, this was exactly what I needed for flutted dagger handles. Thank you very much!!

[@gordon6029]

Firing up fusion to play right now

[@Fusion360School]

Have fun!

[@iranmihanemast7032]

you are really genius . thank you for your excellent videos. Mind blowing ideas.

[@dnmnsmith]

Very well explained, as usual.

[@eng.mohamednagaty977]

Excellent .

[@stefanguiton]

Excellent

[@Dsk001]

Awesome technique, but i ranked to let you know there is a trick to be able to use the pipe tool on multiple lines. If you go into the form tool and use the pipe command there it will let you select as many lines as you want as one command.

[@Fusion360School]

Wow, this is a revelation. I just tried it. It works! I just don't understand why we can't do this in a normal pipe.

[@Dsk001]

@@Fusion360School I feel the same way.

[@WeltschmerzvonGavagai]

holy cow this isssue haunted me for quite a while. i tried 3dsketch / projection and so on etc but none of them works !

[@MrNursi]

Would using a construction line for the path prevent it from splitting the sweep? Thanks for your videos, they're very useful; advanced enough to be interesting and stimulating.

[@Fusion360School]

Thank you for the compliments. Are you referring to the path for the loft or the path for doing the helical sweep? If it is the former, I did not actually create any path/rail for the lofting. Not sure whether it could have helped in removing the split line. If it is the latter, I went back into the model and changed the path to a construction line. It did not seem to make any difference.

[@edhebert]

I would like to project a helix path onto a rectangular solid body. Because it has more than one intersecting surface this technique doesn't work. Any idea for alternatives?

[@HarryHeck2020]

What do you think would happen if you didn't want to split the face and made 3d sketch and used Intersect project? Would that make a path?

[@HarryHeck2020]

Also, you could Plane Along Path and draw your own profile, then instead of pipe you could use Sweep Path + Guide Surface to get the profile to be normal to the surface.

[@Dsk001]

If you do not want to split the face what you can do instead is use the trim command using the body surface as the tool and selecting the excess of the spiral to delete. This will leave you will a spiral in the shape of the body which you can then use for the 3d sketch project.

[@HarryHeck2020]

@@Dsk001 Oh that's a good idea. You will have a problem with the start and stop points starting tangent to the line rather than the split body, so you could do an offset face in the surface tab then extend the edges and start the spiral sooner. Then when you add the sweep along path + guide surface, you'll be able to split it flush with the flat edges from the lure body. That will give you a face that includes the spirals in which you can attempt to loft to a point with G1 or G2 curvature for a missile like cone that includes the spiral. I was trying to figure out how to do that.

[@HarryHeck2020]

@@Dsk001 Sorry to hit you with another reply. That was such a good response I had to check out your channel. Amazing work! I would probably do that kind of stuff if I had a 3D printer to test print.

[@Fusion360School]

@@HarryHeck2020 @Dsk Quite a few good ideas here. I tried @Dsk's idea of trimming the surface using the body. It does work to create a path. But I did face issues during the pipe at the end points, as alluded to by @Harry Heck. I had to deselect some of the segments. Another way is to perform the split face on the helical surface instead of the main body. I tried @Harry Heck's idea of doing an intersection curve in sketch. However, I wasn't able to select both bodies, even with the 3D sketch option checked.

[@woodywiest]

Do you think the kids at Autodesk will ever give us a helical sketch option?

[@Fusion360School]

There is actually a coil command. There are some limitations to this. It cannot be used to produce a surface. It also cannot be used to produce an "undulating" coil like what is needed here. Though I think I might be able to use it to produce a ruled surface out of the solid coil and use it to cut into the undulating body.

[@woodywiest]

​@@Fusion360School True, there is a coil command. I find it helpful but also limited because there are only certain profile sections allowed, triangle, circle square, that the coil can take on. I found myself wanting to create custom threads beyond what was offered in the thread command and needing to do workarounds to get what I needed. Another was to create custom cooling channels within an object like you present in this video and was required to do a workaround similar to what you showed here. Am I expecting too much of Fusion, or do you think there is a need for a helical sketch command?

[@Fusion360School]

A helical sketch command would certainly be helpful with custom sweeping profiles.

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[@Fusion360School]

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