I have the need to make a spiral like a watch spring (not ahelix). The sheet metal tools don't work on the spiral sketch but Ican do an extrude thin feature to get a model that looks like sheetmetal. The add bend command does not work on the result. Thiswouldn't be a problem as I could just manually draw a flat patternfor manufacturing except I need tabs on the edge of the spiral thatwill interlock into slots on a plate that the spiral will weld to.I know I could manually figure out where the tabs and slots wouldneed to be but it really seems like there should be a better way..Any ideas?
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