Plug-in: tXSpring

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Plug-in: tXSpring

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tSXSpring 1.0. Spring polyhedrons maker.
tSXSpring_img.png
For trueSpace 5.10 or above. Unzip inside the ../tsx folder along with path.

PARAMETERS:
- Resolution u (range 1 - 360): make polyhedron smooth or coarse along the wire's diameter;
- Resolution v (range 1 - 180): make polyhedron smooth or coarse along the wire's wind;

-- spring's extension and compression parameters --

- Wire diameter (range 0.001 - 1): the diameter of the wire;
- Spring diameter: the external spring's diameter;
- Windings: the number of windings.

These parameters acts on the free lenght of the spring; a large object could be created to match the required shape;
in this case the object must be scaled down through the common tools to match the suited dimension.
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Thanks Fenerit.
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Version 1.1

- fix correct Resolution range in u 3-360, v 3-180;

this was forgotten in seat of design against division by zero. :(
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Fenerit wrote:tSXSpring 1.0. Spring polyhedrons maker.
tSXSpring_img.png
For trueSpace 5.10 or above. Unzip inside the ../tsx folder along with path.

PARAMETERS:
- Resolution u (range 1 - 360): make polyhedron smooth or coarse along the wire's diameter;
- Resolution v (range 1 - 180): make polyhedron smooth or coarse along the wire's wind;

-- spring's extension and compression parameters --

- Wire diameter (range 0.001 - 1): the diameter of the wire;
- Spring diameter: the external spring's diameter;
- Windings: the number of windings.

These parameters acts on the free lenght of the spring; a large object could be created to match the required shape;
in this case the object must be scaled down through the common tools to match the suited dimension.
tSXSpring.zip
Thanks for posting this. I love TSx plugins and wish I could compile them as well. Leroy
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Thank you Leroy.
BNG wrote: Thanks for posting this. I love TSx plugins and wish I could compile them as well. Leroy
Do you mean the source code here? Well, it will be released altogether once the parametric "set-up" has been well-tested against other math/shapes/plug-ins. It is far from being perfect now, and I could to re-write it from scratch if only to account for an all-in-one mesh buillder. FYI, I use VC6 designer/compiler.

P.S.
I'd already planned the releasing of the source just because I should like to have these "primitives" as NURBS patches, whose API I know lesser, and neither I know whether it is possible to do; hopefully someone may tell the last word (coding/not coding) about it.
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Wow, nicely done.
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Re: Plug-in: tXSpring

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tSXSpring version 1.4.
- Fix bad geometry
- added toroidal spring (coil)
tSXSpring_1.4.png
Extract with path inside the TSX folder.
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