Spiral dialog

Use the Spiral dialog to create a spiral.

To display the Spiral dialog:

1. Click Curve Editor tab > Create panel > Curves > Spiral, which attaches a spiral to the cursor.

   

2. Click in the graphics window to locate the centre of the spiral.

This dialog contains the following:

• Start radius — Enter the radius at the start of the spiral by either entering a value or selecting it graphically.

  Start radius of 0:

  

  Start radius of 10:

  

• End radius — Enter the radius at the end of the spiral by either entering a value or selecting it graphically.

  

• Turns — Enter the number of revolutions in the spiral.

  Number of turns of 3:

  

  Number of turns of 6:

  

• Points in each turn — Enter the number of points in each revolution.
• Flip direction — Select to change from an anticlockwise to a clockwise spiral.

  Selecting Flip direction converts this:

  

  to this:

  

For more information, see creating a spiral example.