faster way to do this?

[Kyle Waters]

Good evening All,

 

I am working on some "government" work, and I ran into what has got to be a brain fart on my behalf(where it usually is). I want to make what is essentially a nightcrawler. The ends are tapered, and I want to put "ribs" along the straight and tapered portions, .03" wide, spaced .047" apart. I cannot believe that I would have to mess around with all these arcs to get this done. Anybody got an idea, maybe two? The worm is 6" long if that helps to paint the painful picture...oh this is for X3 by the way. Thanks up front

[Ocean Lacky™]

for the straight section, i would do one rib and translate it the required number of times. for the tapered end, mirror it to make the other end.

[Kyle Waters]

that's kind of what I currently have, except I did half of the straight the same way. I was hoping for a bit quicker, but maybe I am doing it half right to begin with. and thanks Ocean!

[mowens]

Is this something you could make a profile for and do a surface of revolution?

[JDowe]

Create a rotated surface

create a line above the surface

offset the line .047 (6/.047) times

project the lines onto the surface