Hi all,
After years of using Alibre for generating parts and sending the files of to be made I purchased a 3d FDM printer.
One of the things that I found works is printing threads. However they are a pain. Before I would just say x thread here. But with 3d printing you actually need the shape. I currently draw the main parts then spend ages drawing a profile of a thread with all the right pitch etc for the thread. Then spiral rotate cut the thread out. Works great if you have one. But I'm now looking to print parts that have many threads in them and not really interested in the work redrawing the profile of a thread every time.
So my question is can I just make a set of threaded parts. Like say bolts. The draw my part, and mate the bolt into the hole and do a boolean subtraction or something? Is that possible? Or is there a better solution?
Thanks Tim
After years of using Alibre for generating parts and sending the files of to be made I purchased a 3d FDM printer.
One of the things that I found works is printing threads. However they are a pain. Before I would just say x thread here. But with 3d printing you actually need the shape. I currently draw the main parts then spend ages drawing a profile of a thread with all the right pitch etc for the thread. Then spiral rotate cut the thread out. Works great if you have one. But I'm now looking to print parts that have many threads in them and not really interested in the work redrawing the profile of a thread every time.
So my question is can I just make a set of threaded parts. Like say bolts. The draw my part, and mate the bolt into the hole and do a boolean subtraction or something? Is that possible? Or is there a better solution?
Thanks Tim