# How do you make a close spiral or a spiral fold

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**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [December 20, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-close-spiral-or-a-spiral-fold/16436 "2021-12-20T00:49:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Estalfos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/estalfos/32/24279_2.png) [@Estalfos](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Estalfos)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-close-spiral-or-a-spiral-fold/16436/1 "2021-12-20T00:49:31Z")

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![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/5/5068450d01a8a7b32e2a38382386d4fff0cd5b3b.jpeg)  
The software refuse to sweep it in one piece and in segments refuse to unite them

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**Author:** ![TigerMike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tigermike/32/32650_2.png) [@TigerMike](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TigerMike)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 1:05am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-close-spiral-or-a-spiral-fold/16436/2 "2021-12-20T01:05:33Z")

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Is this what you are trying to achieve?

[https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/0/01fe6cd7dfeb7aa4b3cf2cd7a4cba86f439e6d90.mov](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/0/01fe6cd7dfeb7aa4b3cf2cd7a4cba86f439e6d90.mov)

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**Author:** ![Estalfos](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/estalfos/32/24279_2.png) [@Estalfos](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Estalfos)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:28am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-close-spiral-or-a-spiral-fold/16436/3 "2021-12-20T03:28:48Z")

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Not exactly but it is definitely very cool. I was wondering if the thinning ending was also possible.

What I’m trying to achieve is a tightly wrapped spiral like the ones on the photos. I want to make rolls like those for some models and I really have no idea how.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/3/321e903ca7b352aed1c8256d639bc5ce73725493.png)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/3/304adf659b5ee60b5fc66e2573a0a67d8e8d9073.jpeg)  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/2X/f/f985f02129d7df5ef665b2133e0002071a02ef93.jpeg)

With no gaps between the tube sections.

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**Author:** ![TigerMike](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/tigermike/32/32650_2.png) [@TigerMike](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/TigerMike)\
**Post date:** [December 20, 2021, 3:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/how-do-you-make-a-close-spiral-or-a-spiral-fold/16436/4 "2021-12-20T03:43:03Z")

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Here I enlarged the diameter before doing both sweeps and made the inner end a full spherical radius. Overlapping the sweep does work.