How to Draw a Chain Tensioner Snail

gerald · February 16, 2015, 8:24am

Hello

I would like to draw a snail chain tensioner. So for the moment I took an image and I drew a sketch on it with a spline. But I would like to do something more "professional"

gerald · February 16, 2015, 8:26am

I used this as an image

tendeurs-escargot-jitsie.jpg

sb · February 16, 2015, 8:29am

Hello

You can try drawing the shape from an equation, present on the page below.

http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirale_logarithmique

S.B

benoitlf · February 16, 2015, 8:31am

Hi Gerald,

Why not draw a spiral as a base? View image

screenshot997.jpg

pl · February 16, 2015, 8:32am

Hello, Solidworks' help is pretty self-explanatory: http://help.solidworks.com/2013/French/SolidWorks/sldworks/t_Helix_or_Spiral_-_Creating.htm

gerald · February 16, 2015, 9:22am

@benoit that's what I wanted to do but I don't know how (I mean where the function is)

coyote · February 16, 2015, 10:04am

Hello

Draw a circle of the desired diameter and then Insertion\Curve\spiral-helix

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