The Coil tool sweeps a profile along a helix, which is how you model a spring, a thread or the endless screw of a worm drive without drawing the path by hand.
Three parameters define the helix: the pitch, which is the advance per revolution, the number of revolutions, and the height. They are linked, so fixing two of them determines the third, and choosing which two to specify is the whole setup.
For a worm drive the pitch is not a free choice. It has to match the tooth spacing of the gear it drives, because the two must mesh. Draw the profile of one thread, place the axis, and let the coil generate the rest.
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