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Model of a Magazine Spring

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drb7

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Does anyone have any suggestions on how to model a magazine spring? Basically a coiled compression spring/helix with straight sides.
 
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Create a 3D Sketch of your helix path, radius the corners, then sweep the profile of your spring.

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Read: faq731-376
"Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities."
 
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