Conical Splines Construction

I have avoided coming up with a proper solution for making a cone with
blind ended V splines on the surface of a cone (a shallow cone today
like a bellville washer cone).

I have constructed an individual spline sketch with a new angled
sketch plane off the longitudinal centerline of the cone & extruded
the cut, and then created the "round" end cut of the cutter at the end
of the spline.

That is OK & works, but doesn't represent the blind end of the spline
correctly, if the cutter axis is parallel to the axis of the cone.

Then the last issue that comes to the table is that I have 240 splines
to cut, and they do not lend themselves to using the "Circular
Pattern" to create the set of splines, as the sketch is done on a
special angled plane that can't be patterned (at least in Swks 2006).

Is there a clean solution to doing splines on a cone and then finally
patterning them easily?

Thanks - Bo

 

Picture, please..

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I'm having a hard time visualizing this but can you create a surface
that you can use as construction and then you could pattern the
surface using patterned surface bodies?

--Matt

 

The best way to describe what I want to do could be thought of as
machining a V groove on the top or bottom conical surface of a
Bellville washer, with the cutter centerline parallel to the
centerline of the Bellville washer.

Bo

 

The real issue is that extruding up to the plane I need doesn't me
then later do a circular pattern, because the end plane for a blind
cut is only good for the original V slot.

Bo

Bo

 

In other words you want to model the groove cut by a ball nose cutter
where the ball nose cutter is set a fixed distance below the surface
of a shallow conical surface and the cutter axis is parallel to the
cone's axis. Once you have a single groove you want to pattern it
about the cone's axis.

TOP

 

TOP, you are correct. -- I've figured out the subtleties of getting
the blind end condition of the V slot with the "ball end mill" right.

It is the "Circular Pattern" that does not work in my specific case,
where a radial spline starts &/or ends with a Plane.

The issue arises with a "shaft" with a radial cut which ends a radial
groove @ Plane1 when you want to do a pattern around the longitudinal
axis that obviously doesn't pierce that Plane1 for all grooves, as it
requires indexing the Plane for each patterned V groove.

LONGITUDINAL Splines on the surface of a shaft are easy, as the V cuts
end on a plane that ends all the "Vs" of a pattern on the same
plane.

But, if you want to do blind radial V slots on the Round END of the
shaft, then the problem is apparent.

I've seen this & known of it and just avoided the problem by one
method or another in the past, but now, I just need to understand how
to take care of this issue, and I assume there must be a common
method, other than doing 240 sets of groove constructions all manually
(God forbid).

Thanks - Bo