How To Make Any Tapered Coil in Fusion 360 | Complete Step by Step  

Thank you so much for this, I never realized how much you could do with the surface tool. Whenever you plan on patterning a custom profiled coil, patterning it as a surface before forming a solid body helps tremendously with performance. If you pattern it as a solid body Fusion will freeze horribly every time it has to recalculate when a parameter is changed.

thanks for sharing your tutorial, this is exactly what I was looking for knowing any tapered coil. this is great!!!!!

Excellent tutorial this exactly what I needed. I got stumped at one point as I couldn't select just the inside path, I had to uncheck 'chain selection'

One of the most common reasons for creating coils like this is to make a helical spring. Fusion's cousin (Inventor) does this natively and includes the option to define real world end spring ends, namely "ground and closed". I wonder if this is on the Fusion road map? This technique of yours would really benefit from being extended to flattening and trimming the ends to achieve that effect.

If you are going to be using a circle as the profile a way to skip a step (no need to make a sketch) is to use the pipe command

Do you know of a way to adjust the spring "stretch" using a similar approach? I want the space between layers to vary, so like super tight at the bottom and super stretched at the top, with a smooth transition between the two. Does that make sense? This is the first video I've seen from you, I'm sure it won't be the last!

It was really helpful. I was trying to make an internal and external tapered thread.

Very helpful, thank you! Greg

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Excellent, thanks.

How could you make taper threads on a arc, for example on wood screw? To make threads down the point from a straight line to a arc and tapering down to nothing.

This is a great tutorial, but I have a question I'm hoping you can solve: I have created 2 coils both with the same dimensions in the same position (one positive and one negative). The negative coil differs as it tapers inward 5 degrees. I have joined them at the same connecting face when creating the 2nd coil (as the option to join bodies), how do you create a sweep along both of them? When trying to sweep, an error occurs stating that the path surface is not smooth, but I don't know how to smooth the path. Have you tried this before? Thanks

When I go to create a sketch on the "plane along path", it takes me to one of the origin planes, not the plane I created. Can't figure out why....

Hello sir.. It's a Nice video. But some queries m having. How to make coil on the face of any disc of a reactor. Plz guide

Hmm i can do it with just a line it has to be an enclosed sketch for the profile. IS there some kind of a setting I am missing?

Great video and a very clever workaround. I was pretty sure that it's almost impossible to model such spring in F360 in reasonable amount of time. Thank you!

Everything works out so far but when I sweep my profile, which is a symmetrical trapeze with the thinner side being outside, it doesn't follow the coil path how it should. The profile rotates around and the thicker side goes outside. Do you have a tip how to keep the orientation of my weep profile? It's hard to do when working on a plane that isn't parallel / perpendicular to the world axles.

Hey just found your channel. Have subscribed to this gem straight away. I was wondering if you would have another "hack" to solve a problem I have with the chamfer tool. I want to model a pipe connection as a T (like a saddle cut). The two pipes are to be welded together. The incomming member should have a weld bevel with 45° tagent to the surface of the other pipe. Any help would be much appriciated ! Thanks for all the knowledge you share with us!

what if im trying to make a coil with a changing pitch that blends between them

can you share the file of the finished product?

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Hmm, at 5:00 you're explaining the goal, but not explaining what you're clicking or how you get the "ok" button to appear when trimming.