Trying to increase the diameter of a 3D Helix

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Hello all, I’m learning grasshopper (slowly so please forgive!) and am trying to understand how these components all interact. I have a setup that produces a 3D helix, but I’m not sure how to alter the diameter of the helix.

I can’t post pictures yet, but I’m following the instructions in the Grasshopper primer located here:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Leuvxv7F6Hcd5LrKVfaynn17ijKY_WYk

(Pages 72-73)

I wanted to experiment but don’t yet understand the elements well enough yet. Can anyone offer and component suggestions or advice?

many thanks!

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in order to alter the diameter of the helix you need to multiply sin and cos by a constant (which is the radius of the helix itself)

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something like this might work:

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3D_helix.gh (10.5 KB)

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Hey thanks inno!

Have replicated this and it works great.

I could have sworn I had tried multiplying the sin and cos but looking back I think I made the mistake of putting it before the sin and cos elements forehead slap.

Thanks again!

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