Creating Treads in Solid

[Namliek_J@TheeCircle™]

I am trying to create a thread in Solids. i created the cylinder. Put a helix around it, and create a triangle at the end that I want to sweep along the helix cutting the body. I get this error

 

 

Am I doing something wrong, or is it Mastercam??

[Guest]

I would not recommend creating threads.

 

 

You gain nothing except a pretty little picture but it uses up system resources like there is not tomorrow.

 

I always draw the major/minor Ø and a dashed line to represt the thread.

[Hardmill]

Creating a thread is going to make your file size huge.

Send it to me if you like and i'll look at it.

 

Remember if you send it to Kannon its gotta be ver. 9. LOL

 

PEACE

[Namliek_J@TheeCircle™]

I was just messing around trying to do it. I have done it before in Autodesk Inventor.

[Kannon]

Hardmill when you get it sent to you can you send it to me in version 9 unzipped ?

Thanks buddy!

[Storkman]

it must not like your helix. i have done it that way before and it works. Hardmill will prolly be able to fix it, but you'll have to wipe the potato chips off it when you get it back.

[90rsgnuguy42]

I've tried to create a solid model of threads by creating a helix and doing a sweep cut. Unfortunately it doesn't revolve the chain as it is sweeping it around the helix. One thing I have done to get a model with true threads in it for verification purposes is to define a threadmill and cut threads in verify and saving the STL file of that. I used that STL file on the next operation to make sure all the depths were where I wanted them (and just between us it looked kinda cool too).

[Kannon]

me so stupid!

 

woops... forget you had the solid first!

back to da drawin board.

[Hardmill]

Instead of doing a sweep cut, you can create you thread solid, the body, then do a boolean remove.

 

 

Works the but like we said it makes a large file.

Its not the prettiest example just threw sumfin together.

 

PEACE

[Storkman]

WTH kinda thread is that????????

 

Looks like a slinky on acid!

 

No wonder your unemployed.

 

[Hardmill]

Only if youve seen a slinky on acid

 

Step away from the bottle

[Kannon]

even us cornboys can make threads better than that!

[Hardmill]

If you want I can email you another one Kannon

 

PEACE

[Kannon]

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If you want I can email you another one Kannon

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whatever helps you sleep at night!

[Hardmill]

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whatever helps you sleep at night!

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BTW Hows yur sheep doing ??

[Kannon]

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BTW Hows yur sheep doing ??

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why wanna borrow it?

[Hardmill]

Your a sick man Kannon, no thanks

 

 

PEACE

[CAM-mando]

If you *must* show threads pictorially Show them as a series of circular rings rather than a helix.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

You can also download a 3D model of most threads from mcmaster.com and then do a boolean remove but I have to agree with the experts here and advise against incorporating threads into your solid models. It's not worth the time, effort, or memory.

[Kannon]

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It's not worth the time, effort, or memory.

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prolly not....its just to be able to do it!

[Steve Zirtzman]

Kannon,

Nice threads for an Iowa boy.

 

Mold designers need to be able to do this for injected molded parts with external threads.

[terry5357]

When I want threads on my model I create in SolidWorks then move to MC

[terry5357]

By the way, I hardly ever model in MC. Itry to use the modeling programs to model and the CAM program to machine.......just works better for me. I don't waste a lot of time trying to figure out HOW to do things in Mastercam when I've got SW right there, and its easier and faster.

But in the real world when I didn't have the luxury of both, I was trying to figure out all kinds of weird sh*t all the time.