helical sweep

[DHALE1]

I am in the process of trying to make a drill bit. I have the body of the drill bit drawn and have made a helical sweep cut of the flute. My problem is that I am unable to figure out how to lead or taper the end of the helical cut out of the body of the drill bit. Can anyone offer any suggestions.

Thanks

 

[MadMango]

You might want to read over the following thread:
thread559-41260 "The attempt and not the deed confounds us."

 

[DHALE1]

That thread never went into detail on how to create what I am looking for. I think this would be a common thing if you were trying to show screw threads, and drill bits.

 

[mncad]

Are you using SW2003? If you are the best way I have found is to use the multiple bodies. Create the flute as an extrude, not an extrude cut. Create your exit off the end of the extrude. Once you have the entire extrude the way you want use the "combine" command to "subtract" the flute from the main body. I design indexable cutting tools on SW2003 and have found that to be the quickest easiest way.

mncad