Helical array/interrupted thread?

[Brett Bellmore]

Anybody know how to create a helical array of a feature? I'm modeling a part with an interrupted thread, have created one segment of it, and ideally would like to replicate that segment at appropriate angles and displacements, rather than going through all the detals of modeling it over again for each segment.

 

[dr_gallup]

If you used a datum plane created at an angle through the axis as your sketching plane and a vertically offset axis as a sketching reference you can group these three features and pattern it around and up. You might be able to create the datums internally to the helical feature depending on what release you are using so you don't even need a group.