Coil/Spiral

[jinx-20191]

Does anyone know a good method on making the coil inside of a notepad ?

[divination23]

I had to do something similar a while back. You can create a primitive torus and adjust the thickness to your liking and change the radius to 180 degrees instead of 360 so you end up with a half torus. Pull one end of the torus up and the other end down. Turn on smart transform in your duplicate options and duplicate the torus. Rotote the torus 180 degrees and move it up so the bottom edge lines up with the previous torus's top edge. Continue to duplicate your torus until the spiral is as long as you want ot and group it together. This method doesn't create one object and I'm sure there are better ways to do it but it worked for me. gl

[gssoftware]

There is a spiral mel script and I think its on aw's site.
GS

"I don't know nothing about birthin' babys"

[illusionoflife]

A great SPIRAL script by Dirk Bialluch:
http://dirk-bialluch.mayaring.com/mel/html/mel_spiral.shtmlhttp://dirk-bialluch.mayaring.com/mel/html/mel\_spiral.shtml

[shockwave]

Interestingly enough, have youever looked in the scripts folder in AW/scripts/. Alias has some folders with extra scripts that are not loaded by Maya. Check out the folders "Unsupported" and "Others". there already is a mel script for a spiral curve and spiral geomemtry.

[heydiddlediddle]

Animated sweep

[nicla]

yea, i see there is a script but somehow i cant get it to work. Any tip on using in it?

[shockwave]

If you want to use a script, you have to source it first. Open the script editor and goto file source script. Look for the script you want and source it.
Before you use any script you should open it in a text editor. Sometimes the mel script has info telling you how to use it.
After this is done in the command promt type the name of the script and any settings required. For the spiral mel, try typing spiral 10 1 5 .This will create a spiral curve that is 10 units high, 1 unit in radius and makes 5 loops.
Hope this helps.

[nicla]

ohh wow i see. Thank you so much for the info.