Re shaping a spiral to a "V" form

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Hi guys,
i have created a spiral path which i’m trying to reshape in a V shape like the (badly edited) image below.

with a box its quite easy since I can choose the top face and resize it, but i can’t get it to work on a path/spiral. I have tried breaking the curve and selected half of it but its not working (it got resized only the upper half)

is there a way to “deform” the resizing box by resizing it only from the points that I click onto? (a bit like the deform transform tool in photoshop)

thanks as always

spiral sketchup

btw this was created without extensions so i dont know if theres something ready made for it, but I would prefer doing it without since it will help me learn something new.

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Something like this?

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Drawn in one go using the SU Parametric Shapes plugin from SketchUcation Plugin Store.

It works in SU 2017.

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Or Fredo’s Taper

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yes something like that! wow that was really fast, thanks a lot both of you :slight_smile:
so many talented users in here!

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If you want to do it manually here is one way.
I used redo to speed up the drawing in of the diagonals, but I’m sure you get the idea.

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not sure i have the redo function but i’ll try doing it that way too for the fun of trying (the other extension methods did work wonder so far)

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Redo is ctrl y or the forward arrow on the ‘standard’ toolbar. But you have to undo first to be able to redo. I drew the edges in and undo’d then redo’d for the gif.

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oh i see ok now i got it :slight_smile: im still “stuck” with the standard mini toolbar. I try to keep it simple since im not really good at lots of buttons/icons