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Creating a spring with variable pitch value in Pro/Engineer Wildfire 3.0
This step by step guides you on creating a spring with variable pitch value in Pro/Engineer Wildfire. Follow the steps as shown below:
1) Let us open a new part file. Follow first 2 steps in
,b>"Creating a Sketch - Tutorial for beginners"
to learn how to open a new part file. Now go to "Insert" menu and select "Helical Sweep>>Protrusion"
as shown in figure 1.
Figure 1.
2) When the "Menu Manager" dialog box appears select "Variable",
"Thru Axis" and "Right Handed" under "Attributes" when finished click
"Done" as shown in figure 2.
Figure 2.
3) Now select "Front" datum for sketch plane and "Top" datum for top reference. Now create
a center line that passes through the origin and then create a vertical line with 200.0 height and 30.0 right from the origin as shown in
figure 3. When finished click on button to
accept the sketch.
button to
accept the sketch.
