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Subject: Re: Coiled Cord
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Date: Sat, 3 Sep 94 13:26:15 PDT
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>>
>> What is the best way to make a coiled telephone cord. I'm sure I
>> read how to do it somewhere, but I can't remember. I assume that
>> once it is created I can bend it into a more natural position.
>> Hints?
>>
>> --Doug
>
> One way to do this is to create a spiral curve and rail extrude a
>disc object along that curve. To create the curve, I would simply create
>an 8 sided disc and REMOVE the polygon. You are left with 8 points. If you
>created that flat disc in the YZ view, move each point, minus the first,
>toward the -X axis. After you move the first group of points (7)
>deselect the point nearest the first point and move the rest, until all
>have been moved an equal amount.
Probably a better way is to creat a flat disk, offset from 000, that
will be the crossection of the cord. Then use CLONE with an axis offset, and
use skin to supply the outside of the cord.
A little known feature of LWM is that clone objects are created in
such a way that skinning is very easy.
Using this method you don't have to dick around with individual points.
