thanks for the reply. i have tried to do that but i couldn't get the sides of the helical grove to be exactly tangent to the original holes. i have since found a solution with the help of the SolidWorks tech support. what we did was to create a sweep surface using the helix. then "cut...
hi there. i'm trying to cut a helical groove in the side of a tube in SolidWorks. i have tried to use a helix as a guide curve but the sketch needs to be perpendicular to the end of the helix. what i need is the sketch to be radial to the tube. imagine drilling a hole through the wall of a...
