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Draw a proper helix

Draw a proper helix - SketchUp Tutorial

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Draw a proper helix

- Hi, I'm George Maestri, and today we're going to take a look at how to create a proper helix in SketchUp. Now this is great for things such as threads and screws, for springs as well as circular staircases. So let's take a look at how to do this. Now before we get started, I will need to have one extension installed. And that's an extension that will weld multiple curves together. Now there are a couple of those in the warehouse, I'm using one called Weld with a capital W. And if you want, you can use that one, or if you have another tool you can use, go ahead and use that. So the first thing we need to do is we need to actually draw a polygonal object. So I'm going to select polygon and I'm going to create 24 sides, and then I'm just going to go ahead and just pull this out along the blue axis so that it's perpendicular to the blue axis. And then I'm going to pull that up into an object. Now I'm going to select this top base and go ahead and use the eraser tool to delete it. And I…

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