Hi everyone,

I am a student trying to use NX5 to model an end mill with spiral flutes.
The grooves have to be over an external diameter.

Can I accomplish this by drawing a profile of the groove, helix and then sweeping the profile along the created helix?

But even then with this, the formed groove is oblique to the external diameter. Can anyone please suggest a better method to model an end-mill in NX5?

Thank you very much in advance.