Torus Coil

 From:  Don (DON_CHEKE)
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I have been trying to make a torus coil in a few programs. What I want to achieve is what I did in the attached rendered image in SolidWorks which I exported to Alibre and rendered in KeyShot. I was able to do it in TurboCAD with much more difficulty than I would have liked and I didn't quite get the results I wanted with the to ends that point outward. Someone on the Alibre forum suggested that MoI might work using the deform/flow tool. I am not sure how to make the deform tool work. I get the first two commands but not the third. Maybe this is not the way to do this in MoI. In SW there were a couple ways but the most common was to twist a line around a circle and select an final edge to project a sketch from (2nd image). So 2 questions, 1) how to use the flow tool for this and 2) how would you approach this design in MoI?

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Don Cheke
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