To create the lead in for this part up at the top, I like to create a simple cut revolve. I’m seeing a preview which means I should be in the right direction and then hit the green check mark and there we go, we were able to do a cut sweep of those threads. So now I’m going to exit that sketch and I’m going to go to the command Features > Swept Cut and I’m going to choose to sweep that sketch that I created along the helix that I created in the previous blog.
Modifying line length in draftsight 2016 how to#
I’m just trying to get in there and show you how to make the sketch.
Now that should give me something that looks pretty good for this cut thread and again, it’ll be up to you to make sure your numbers are exactly perfect. Reminder: I know these aren’t exactly the right numbers from the Machinery’s Handbook but I’m just trying to give you something close to work off of.įinally, I’m going to put in a dimension, maybe I’ll take the pitch dimension, grabbing the midpoint of that line, drop in a center line, drop a center line off of the origin and I want the pitch diameter to go from this point to the center line that I created and then across. I[‘m going to make the flat at the bottom 5 thou just to get myself close. 050 so that should give me more or less than the ballpark). Now I’m ready to put in my final dimensions and say I want the distance from peak to peak to be. That’s going to hook that sketch to the helix exactly at that point. Now I’m going to click on that point that I had sketched and I’m going to hold CTRL and select the helix and I’m going to assign what’s called a pierce relation. The reason I have that dimension there is because I want there to be a little bit of overlap between where the thread is cutting and the very outer most part of the shaft by just a few thou (maybe 0.003 inches). Next, I will take a point and put it kind of anywhere on the center line and then put a dimension from that point to the very top line. Next, I’ll take a window selection of the entire sketch and select the Mirror Entities command which gives me the same thread profile on both sides of the center line. Personally, I like to create half of the thread at first and then I take the vertical line (as shown below) and make it for construction. This is where the real magic happens because there’s a lot of different techniques on how to do this, where should the plane be located, and ideally you’re going to stick the specifications in the Machinery’s Handbook – but if you don’t have those specifications or if you’re creating a custom thread, then you might have a little bit more play as for how you create your thread. So we’re going to begin a new sketch on the top plane and now we’re ready to sketch the actual thread profile. Now, the reason we’re using the top plane is that when we created the helix, the helix ended at zero degrees so that’s exactly where our top plane is. To do this we’re going to start off with the helix we created in my previous blog as we were modeling this hex cap screw. How to make a thread in SOLIDWORKS – Custom It really doesn’t get any easier than that.īut a lot of users want to know how to create their own threads in SOLIDWORKS by sketching their own profile and doing a sweep cut. Once we’re done doing that, we can hit the green checkmark and there are our threads. We then choose an edge of our model and go through and populate our thread specifications. To make a thread in SOLIDWORKS we can simply to go Insert > Features > Thread. How to make a thread in SOLIDWORKS – Basic There are basic threads and custom threads. The good news is that ever since the release of SOLIDWORKS 2016, the process couldn’t be easier. In today’s blog, we’re going to take a look at how to make threads in SOLIDWORKS.
Modifying line length in draftsight 2016 series#
In part one of this series I showed how to make a screw in SOLIDWORKS, and in part two I showed how to make a helix in SOLIDWORKS. Welcome back to part three of my “how-to” blog series.
0 kommentar(er)
