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From: bemfarmer
5 Sep 2022   [#28]
The air hose may have a spiral ribbed helix. This is said to reduce kinking.
The helix may not be compressible or stretchable much.

The maximum curvature without overlap could be calculated given the cord radius, and the radius of the tubing to the center of the central helix curve. (?) And the density of the coils?

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1367-2630/14/2/023063/pdf

- Brian
From: Michael Gibson
5 Sep 2022   [#29] In reply to [#23]
Hi Robert, your object is a little too large and just not quite rotated enough.

If you shrink it and rotate it just a little more then it should array well.

If you don't want to shrink it you would need to adjust your curve to not have quite as tight bends in it.

Here's a demonstration of using the edit frame to shrink and rotate your object and then arraying it:



- Michael

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