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 verticle line (as shown below) and make it for construction.
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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.
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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.
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