Thank you! I have been searching for a tutorial on custom threads and kept finding ones that didn’t quite meet my needs. This absolutely perfect! Great explanation and easy steps.
@8:42 This looks like a Mentholatum bottle from the 1900s. Nice. Good vid. Quick and concise. I like this method because it save material while keeping the wall thickness uniform.
I started with this tutorial and changed it a bit. I created an offset plane to base the coil on, then moving the coil up or down is simply adjusting the offset.
Great tutorial , amazong design. Its very usefiul for printing small boxes for kids , as you donot need more threads. I reduced it to 1 rotation and easy to open for kids as well. Word of caution for folks who want to print this, please add tolerance (1mm on cap and threads in my case) for the printed parts to actually go together.
Thanks very much for the design tips! I'm trying this for a motor retainer for model rocketry, and it's looking promising vs. the "usual" positive / negative threads. From a material usage standpoint, I see why mass-produced items like water bottles use only positive threads.
New at 360 allmost gave up testing it untill i see this and did it like you do it. And wonder it works and looks the same. Just greate now i have the tast for more.. Compleetly diffrent than coreldraw and 123d what i did make stuff. Hope untill now.. THANKS AGAIN. HOPE TO SEE MORE LIKE THIS..
this is great! Thanks so much! Have you ever measured a mason jar thread so you could create a custom cap for it? That's what I'm trying to do right now. I was trying to create some negative threads, but this seems much easier!
Hum. did you print this design? I think there needs to be an additional cap tolerance. As shown, the cap binds to the top thread and I have to pry the cap back off. It doesn't twist on/off smoothly. Trying to learn.
Im trying to make a 49mm Lens hood for my camera. So I need a 49mm wide by 0.75 thread pitch by 60 degree profile, outer threads. I can't do this from within Fusion 360 automatically. Is the Coil method the best to use ? Then I try to 3D print sample threads and they don't fit, so maybe my 3D printer tolerances are not super accurate. just trying to have fun and figure it out. Thanks for the video.
Yeah that's what I do it with. The stock threads are limited and dont give you a lot of customization. I usually allow for a .2 to .4mm gap between my threads when 3d printing.
Fischer 3D I might have to change my tip size on the 3D printer. I figured someone on Thingiverse or Yeggi would have masterminded photo threads already. I found One guy who made a Leica M39 Lens cap using of all things TinkerCAD. I was hoping to copy his info and scale it up to 49mm. I have been trying other CAD software and Fusion 360 is just awesome. I wish Solidworks was free for personal use. Enjoyed the video! Thank you :)
@@fischer3d I couldn't figure it out cause I'm a noob, but I didn't give up. I actually found that hidden menu in Tinkercad of all places...under "featured shape generators". "Iso Metric Thread". Diameter... in my case 49mm Pitch 0.75 Segments 32 Rotations 5 Tip Scale 0.6 Tip Segments 16 Thread Scale 1 I printed it at 0.16 on my Ender 3 and it fits perfectly. I slowed down my printer to 30 from 50 cause I was getting lots of filament popping. I even dried it out first too. PETG. eSun Black works perfectly at 229 and 70. I do absolutely love Fusion 360. Why didn't Fusion include a way just to input the 0.75 pitch that all camera lenses use as threads.. with that 60 degree pitch. It was maddening. I was up all night. I did learn different ways to try threads and coils though. I also did notice when I imported the Fusion 360 STL files into Tinkercad, they showed up corrupt. not sure why. Thanks for your thoughts and video :)
Hey Bob. Thanks for the question. Rather than trying to type it all out, I did a quick video that hopefully answers your question. It'll be posted soon on the channel so keep an eye out for it. Thanks
@@fischer3d Hi Fisher 3D...Thanks for your message. I found out my problem with the chamfer tool. The end of the thread was just touching the edge of a fillet, just enough for me not to notice that the blue line did not go the full width of the base line of thread against the main body. I also saw the video about not making a fillet more than half the diameter when rounding off an edge with the fillet tool, you credited that to Adafruit. Thanks for that also. Best wishes. Bob.
I used SolidWorks to create threads, and I was able to create custom threads or standard threads from a profile. Looks like fusion is not able to do this. Am I correct?
