Is there a way to draw a helix in X3?  It is not evident to me and a search does not turn it up.

Alternatively, I could draw a helix in MatLab (or such) and import it, but what file format would make it manipulable in X3?

Thanks for your help.

Reed Wickner 

Hi Reed 

It would be editable as bezier curves (or line segments depending on how matlab exports it).

You could draw it in Draw too, using the bezier tool, but it wouldn't be mathematically accurate.  I'm not sure exactly what you're looking for though since a helix is a 3d shape (do you want it viewed straight on, or from an angle, should it have perspective, etc.).  Alternatively, you could write a vb script to generate it. 

Regards,
Hendrik

Here's a short tutorial I draw for someone in the newsgroups a while back (click to view in full size)