Draw a spiral of a given length

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Mark81
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Re: Draw a spiral of a given length

Post by Mark81 »

It's still written in the original question :D

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Specifically, the length must be honored
Hence, the ONLY real constraint is the spiral length. Then I can set the other parameters until a single degree of freedom is still there. The last one (no matter which) will be calculated.

Hope it's clear, otherwise feel free to ask.
mario52
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Re: Draw a spiral of a given length

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Hi
Mark81 wrote: Tue Sep 20, 2022 12:29 pm
- outer diameter
- pitch
- number of revolutions
- length
ho yes reversed

give me the requested values

mario
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Mark81
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Re: Draw a spiral of a given length

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Thank you Mario, but I don't want you solve for me a specific case. My question was in general.
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Re: Draw a spiral of a given length

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Hi

no problem , i was thinking of a macro like this Macro_CirclePlus for create a spiral (another day)

mario
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