trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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sebastia
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trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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Hi! i am trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder but i can't seem to get it to work. whenever i draw a line it goes through the cylinder instead of along the face. Any suggestions or help would be greatly appreciated.
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

The information you gave is a bit sparse. It would help to know which workbench you use and your final goal would be interesting too.
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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HI, i orignally drew the cylinder in the parts workbench. the end result is suppose to be a cylinder with a row of knives attached to the outside of the cylinder at an angle. imagine a 55 gallon drum with knives poking out in a diagonal pattern across the surface of the drum.
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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hi use a Datum plain position

i guess you like to be it tangentional on the cylinder surface

a image on what you are on woudt be better then many words
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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Hello
I suppose as you need to do a sorte of malaxer for concret, whith a helicoidal plate of metal around the internal surface of the drum
In this case do it whith a addpipe along an helix by path
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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Thanks for the input i will try that. im new to this, ill work on taking a screenshot and posting it.
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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So this is a picture of my cylinder. i was able to wrap a helix around where i wanted to draw the lines. is there anyway to do that?
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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This is what I understood. Check it out. ;)
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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Yeah that looks right. i dont want to have the helix just a line.
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Re: trying to draw a line along the face of a cylinder

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This is one of those situations where I do some things outside of Part Design. I made the helix in Part and the array in Draft. I made the pad sketch a bit smaller than the helix so the lines are easier to see.
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