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coil spring
joey_liaw
Member Posts: 2 EDU
Hello There,
Is that possible I can use onshape to draw a coil spring?
Is that possible I can use onshape to draw a coil spring?
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KatieHuffman
Member, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 194 
Yes you can create a helix
and sweep 
a circular profile to create a spring. The Learning Center doesn't yet have tutorials on curve creation, but it is on our list to create some content for this subject matter. 5
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https://cad.onshape.com/documents/56b7166be4b08910278c4fdd/w/616b75f1743012bd0b525f0a/e/d29f13b45566dfd913a98483
Example here for Extension Spring:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/390a19218a238040dea339a9/w/a59b37dcb0ffc179eb7d20df/e/61e1eaeea095b01bde8dd77d
may be it will help you further see my Spring-FS
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/48ec052b1145ddd86705ef78/w/91cdf3007cb145b3e5c7fbbf/e/305d955b8b71be5086653bad
Try to translate for your extenssion spring, and let me know
Tonvisch
Looks very good. I will try to use your FS next time I need a compression spring.
Regards and Thanks
Chrisjh