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riki · 2 years ago

i am riki from the philippines.... i find your guide very simple yet very informative. i know that by reading this article of yours i can draw objects that i can't draw before.

Lingeshan.J · 2 years ago

hello Sir,

I am Lingesh working as designer in harita Seating which is one of TVS Group of company. As I am involving in modelling of A class cushion surface. I tried to import IGES file in auto CAD. but it doesn't accept that format.Whether can we import IGES in Auto CAD2004 or not? And also has one more doubt.
Can we make spring in Auto CAD 2004?. if it is possible can U send procedure.

Urs friendly
Lingeshan.J

SSB · 2 years ago

Yes you can make spring and threads in AutoCAD 2004 using thread.lsp & helix.lsp files if you want more information kindly contact me through this email : rgugr@yahoo.com

Victor · 2 years ago

my name is victor. i started learning autocad just one month now. i have mastered a lot in autocad especially from you tutorial. plz i would want u to help me more with information on drafting. bc i want to apply in an engineering company that builds bridge, and they needed me to know how to use civil 3d to draw. thank u

CSM · 2 years ago

Great tutorial! I'm using the principles I learned here to draw a spiral staircase. I now have it complete except for the 1/2" thick acrylic balustrade panels, which I can't figure out for the life of me. My instinct was to draw a 1/2 thick cylinder of the correct diameter and try to use the handrail (helix) as a boundary for slicing the cylinder, but CAD won't recognize the helix for this purpose. Any suggestions?

Anil Sharma · 2 years ago

Hello sir i got a lot of knowledge by these web pages.
but sir i want to do some practicle work plz guide
me kindlly................

Maren Swakei Mr · 2 years ago

Hello Gentle Men,
Thanks very much for this blog.
It's very informative, well designed, and user friendly.
Your photos add a very professional touch to the site.

Maren

Edme Focant · 2 years ago

Sir,

I want to draw the thread of a bolt and for that I did draw a spiral with the helix lisp and extrude a triangle with the helix as a path (using ACAD2004).
The result is that the shape of the triangle is rotating along the helix path.
What is the trick to keep the triangle parallel to the outside of the bolt?

Bryan Adkins · 2 years ago

Mr Toker, Very Informative and a very direct approach to this problem, I have been wondering how to approach a similar situation I believe this information will apply. On another subject, I have been working with some Autolisp code and have a great deal of success creating a variety or subroutines in a varied area of application. I have reached a dead end and am looking for some example code of how to deal with / Modify Solids with code. Am I confined to only (command "whatever" "" ) approach, can I work with solids from an "entmake" approach assigning 3d coordinates ? Where do I look for an answer to this problem. ,, PS I use a Legal Registered version of Architectural Desktop 2007, is there an online resource from Autodesk that I am not aware of. Thank you very much, Sincerely Bryan

Orhan Toker · 2 years ago

Hi Bryan,

I'm afraid you can not modify or create solids with standard AutoLISP functions. You have to checkout Visual LISP (vla_xxxxx) functions. Or please ask this question to Muharrem. He's a real Visual LISP expert :)

regor · 2 years ago

sir toker,
do you have any tuitorial how to make a spring in a curve path?

Thank you very much

john · 2 years ago

sir toker,

we have developed a product to import iges file into autocad, could you please evaluate our software and make some comments?

thanks
John

JOHN · 2 years ago

I type helix into the command line on auto cad 2005 and it doesn't recognise it. strange

Erhan Toker · 2 years ago

Hello John,
HELIX command available after Acad 2007.
How can I download your project and sample IGES files?

Kat · 2 years ago

John,

You can download 3D spiral autolisp routine from the t'interweb which will allow you to create 2D and 3D spirals in earlier versions.

Quiz · 2 years ago

Hello John,
can you help me with lofting error in AutoCAD?
I have two different cross-sections: one big and one small triangle. When I use lofting by path solid object has correct bounds, like this:
X = 0.0000 , Y = 0.0000 , Z = 0.0000
X = 100.0000 , Y = 100.0000 , Z = 100.0000
But when I use lofting by cross-sections only solid has incorrect bounds:
X = -0.0010 , Y = -0.0010 , Z = -0.0010
X = 100.0010 , Y = 100.0010 , Z = 100.0010
And this error reflect to other operation. When I try to union conus and lofting solid difference in 0.001 units at the edge sometimes cast ACIS modeling error.
Alexander (Russia)

iylah · 2 years ago

hello toker..i found that your manual on drawing screw is very helpful..but now i have difficulties on how to draw internal thread in a cylinder,.hope that u could help me on that matter..thank you..

jun · 2 years ago

does anybody knows how to make a roller chain or an engine belt with teeth? or array an object in elleptical shape or any other shape besides a circle. thanks

jun · 2 years ago

does anybody knows how to make a roller chain or an engine belt with teeth? or array an object in elliptical shape or any other shape besides a circle. thanks

Chris · 1 year ago

I have followed everything as far as I can tell but when I go to sweep my object I get a message saying 'Unable to sweep the selected object'. What am I doing wrong?

Erhan Toker · 1 year ago

Hello Chris,
Be sure that profile polyline is closed. And also notice that no crosing or overlapped segments are allowed.
Hope this helps..

hompha · 1 year ago

sir
may I see how to draw a thread according to rules with ACAD 2004,2005,2006.

Henry · 1 year ago

Hi,

Where can i find some information about the thread end?? If you really want to draw a real thread, you have to know how make the real shape for the thread end.

I really need to know that....

ryan · 1 year ago

chris,

i had the 'unable to sweep the selected object' error as well. turns out that the object i was trying to sweep (in my case a circle) overlapped on itself around the bends of the path i was sweeping along, so i increased the diameter of the bends and the object swept fine.

PERCY KLEE · 1 year ago

hol soy latino quisiera me expliques como cargo el lisp helix qu ebaje de web par poder hacer helicoidales en esplaol pls

Mark Loomis · 1 year ago

I am having trouble with the Helix command in AutoCAD 2008. I have a PDF screen capture file that I would like to send to you to illustrate my problem. Thank you.

Ahmed Butt · 1 year ago

Thankyo you very much for this wonderful tutorial. I've been searching for this artical for many months on the net and i want to thank you deeply from my heart for this tutorial.

Hoping to have more helpful tutorials like this in future.....


Y O U R O K Z !!!!

Syarip Hidayat · 1 year ago

Can we drawing bolt/nuts using autoCAD 2006? or is there any software to help it? please give your advices.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Syarip Hidayat

Everybody can Draw Springs Wit · 11 months ago

[...] you to ‘sweep’ along 3D spirals. Whereas in AutoCAD this process can be quite problematic as sweeping is not allowed with 3D paths. (except in 2007+ [...]

Dominic · 10 months ago

Hi, I tried your helix tutorial but I have some problem. I put the pattern on position the same on instruction,but when i command sweep,the pattern is rotating and sweep in to path.

eugene · 5 months ago

Thanks sir from Philippines