Hello Friends,

I've had a successful iteration of this part which is a study to try and estimate how a coil of cable will drape or hang in my project. But, by trying to alter it to more accurately follow my real world sample, I have stumbled on a strange phenomenon.

As you can see below, I have twisted a surface along a spline to create a coiled path to sweep along (Thank you for helix-helix @Paul Salvador)... At one of my lower control points where the curvature of the spline has brought the loops into a possible interference, the sweep has jumped a revolution of the path! What strange magic is this?

This is not super critical with respect to my model but I did want to get rough idea of where to place the holster for the IEC plug and the upshot would be a nice model for our marketing team to use in the full product renderings. The attached model is unfinished and configured to be Draped, Hung and As Drawn, where i will ultimately lay it flat and straight to describe it to our suppliers.

Before I set off in that direction, could you offer some constructive comments on this approach and maybe I could simplify the method? (hoping for an avalanche )

Warm regards, Bob