# Spring frustration

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spring-frustration/22400>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [November 9, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spring-frustration/22400 "2022-11-09T00:50:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Thehifimechanik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/thehifimechanik/32/17584_2.png) [@Thehifimechanik](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Thehifimechanik)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 12:50am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spring-frustration/22400/1 "2022-11-09T00:50:12Z")

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Hi,

I’m very new to Shapr3D but loving its potential for a project, I’m stuck on a frustrating part of making a spring. I just need the spring to be flat at both ends (so it would stand vertical). I’m looking to flatten the last rotation at each end!

Attached is what i’m looking to reproduce.

Thanks in advance

Grant

![s-l400](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/b/0/b01978032fb9e37a6bdd6b9e4a995b5217d35726.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![jcclow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jcclow/32/23888_2.png) [@jcclow](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jcclow)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 1:52am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spring-frustration/22400/2 "2022-11-09T01:52:00Z")

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Could you just draw a rectangular sketch perpendicular to the spring and at the elevation where you would like the flat part to be, extrude the rectangle, and then subtract it from the spring?

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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:** [November 9, 2022, 2:45am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spring-frustration/22400/3 "2022-11-09T02:45:51Z")

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The video is from @Sebestyen (Shapr3D staff).

[![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/0/f/0fcd323b72a8fe1e6e9d2c7db5dc86a3f888e29c.jpeg "Modeling Conical Spring on iPad | Shapr3D") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lG2edbNzeM)

Do what @jcclow recommends for flattening the ends of the spring.  
-Mike

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**Author:** ![jcclow](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/jcclow/32/23888_2.png) [@jcclow](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/jcclow)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spring-frustration/22400/4 "2022-11-09T12:30:59Z")

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Thanks @TigerMike…didn’t know there was a video out there, but had done it in the past in AutoCAD.

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**Author:** ![Thehifimechanik](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/thehifimechanik/32/17584_2.png) [@Thehifimechanik](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Thehifimechanik)\
**Post date:** [November 9, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/spring-frustration/22400/5 "2022-11-09T13:39:22Z")

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Thanks Mike, I have seen this video before, but stubbornly tried to find ways to compress part of the spring…Anyway this has worked and look great See image.

Many thanks

Grant

 ![Screenshot 2022-11-09 at 1.38.34 pm](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/1/d/1d65c9a523faae110b86b55f295a2f112cf79274.jpeg)