Solidworks Tutorial - Super Easy 3D Screw External Thread Lesson Learn Simple Helix Cut 5 Minutes 

Really nice step-through. Exactly what I needed to make the M10X1 section on an SFU1204 standard BK machined ball screw drawing. Thanks!!! I really appreciate that you took the time to make this video/tutorial.

Thank you sir very much!!! All the time the problem was that triangle width reduction. I didn't realize that it would cut into itself.

Much easier approach than piercing the helix, etc. THANKS!

Like everyone else, thank you!! This helped me a lot! First time Helix and swept cut/ boss user...My machine shop requested a square thread. Easy transition from your example.

Ok I got it. had to redraw my cutting tool and remove the depth line for the tool. You went by without pointing that out. you clicked it so fast I didn't notice it

Awesome job! Worked perfectly for me.

Thanks Raymond Kopec simple and easy way

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Worked perfectly! Thank you!

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Clear and simple expression, Thanks.

Thanks a lot for the video. It was super helpful.

Thank you very much, I learned a lot of knowledge from your video, this video is very valuable, I fully recommend.

Vivek, the only thing I would guess that making yours act in such a way is that your "profile" sketch might have a tiny "extra" line dangling around somewhere. Try zooming in everywhere at all of your line ends and see if you see a tiny line hangin' around somwhere. If this is the problem, you can delete it and continue with the operation. This is the case a lot of times if it won't correctly find your "profile" and "path" automatically with the correct sketches selected.

Thank you for topping the text book provided video...

good video ray sure was helpful, when i program a thread on a cnc lathe i always put a chamfer before i thread, if you go from th face under the miner (or major id od ) at a greater angle then the tool then you never have a bur , im trying to figure out how to blunt start a thread in solid works anyway great video thanks m8

This is really cool. This helps!

Great and concise instructions. Thank you very much!

thanks, forgot to subtract the small bit from the edge of the triangle, so the tool was running into itself. of course, solidworks wouldn't just come out and tell me this.

Awesome tutorial, thanks!!

Good job, Bro!!!

Great video. Thanks!

epic! thank you so much that was so simple

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Hello, I am impressed by your command manager bar can you please make a video on how to change the traditional Command manger Thanks in advance.

This was very helpful, thanks for posting!

The hole wizard is actually a great tool for calling out threads in drawing files but it lacks the ability of detail in the drawings. I didn't like it until I started doing solids with lots of tapped holes. If you use the hole callout command in a drawing and select the hole it will automatically tell the drill size needed and the depth of the drill and tap according to the parameters you set. It also has the correct depths preset unless you change them.

Just want to thank everyone for watching that helped me get over 5,000 views on my first video. It's inspired me to make some more and i'll try to continue and do so in the future.

Very helpful!!

A little monotone but the video is great! Short, Sweet and to the point, covering a few in depth tricks as well.

Hi, great video but I am unclear on the triangle or cutting tool. I don't know where to draw it or where to place it exactly. I understand making the helix to the desired pitch, but I just don't get the "cutting tool". Can you help me out?

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Brilliant video, thanks for sharing

Helpful Video thanks

very helpful. Thank you!

hello, thank you for teaching me.

i did learn something! thank you

really clear and helpful, thank you!

Awesome thanks!

thanx a ton

Don't want to sound like the ol' geezer I am but... you send this to a machine shop they'll ignore that, and either delete that feature (if they use the same native CAD program) or just export and edit a STEP to eliminate it They'll then cut the stock for the proper thread major diameter for the thread tolerance.. Then they'll either cut a single point on a manual lathe, use a canned CNC routine in their toolpath generation program for a CNC lathe/screw machine, or use a die with the proper thread tolerance. Same thing happens to an internal hole, You'll do a second operation with something like a tapping head on a drill press (Tapmatic, Procunier, etc...) or run a tapping cycle on a CNC machine for the proper thread type (H1,H2, H3, depth, etc...) as called out. This is why Solidworks has (since I've been using it from 1995), cosmetic thread displays and and added a Hole Wizard - I think around version 2004-2006 - some CAM programs for CNC can read that data from the native file - tho most machine shops can't even use that. The Hole Wizard allows a CAD guy to make a Solidworks Drawing with a Hole Table callout for actual fabrication of machined threads. For instance - one of the larger on-line rapid machining houses, Firstcut - has a guide - just google them (they're part of the group that owns Protomold). Check it out for yourself on the page. Go to Protolabs - Firstcut - you'll see a pull down menu for Resources, then go to the menu item "Machining Design Guidelines", then the picture titled Machining Design Guidelines (I know redundant) - then you'll see a picture called "Threaded Holes" They even state there "Do not model internal threads..." later it states: "You must model the pilot hole for a threaded hole. Firstcut finds candidate threaded holes by looking at your model. It looks for holes that fall in a specific diameter range and that are in an allowable orientation." This is why Hole Wizard works that way it does when you ask it to do a threaded hole. Now there are times when you need to do an actual modeled thread - say for an injection or blow molded part for say a shampoo bottle or for some thing that's to be cast threads . But that's a whole other furball - read "Mold Making Tips" in the book Machine Shop Trade Secrets - the first sentence is something like "Mothers don't let you kids grow up to be mold makers..." As to threading - check out some of the suggested videos on this RU-vid sidebar to see how most treading is actually done. Search RU-vid for: NC PROGRAMMING - "How to make any hole with NX CAM" Threadmilling in Mastercam Part 1 Note in the mastercam vid - it shows how they use Solidworks files in a production environment. Even check out the Tormach vid on threading... they use the routines in their CAM program... Similar thing happens when we get SW files with what the customer wants for the silkscreen as a cut or extruded feature. First, it makes more work for the toolpath guy since he has to delete all that so something like Visual Mill or Mastercam doesn't see at as a machinable feature. Then, the actual guy int he back (usually with a purple mohawk that does screens T-shirts for local metal bands) has to re do it all in either Corel or Illustrator. Screeners really prefer "camera-ready" art with any seps (pantones or builds) if it's color. I know all the threads and J1, J2, company logo's, etc look great in SW and Edrawings, but it's not really how it's done. The best thing to do is to take make a SLDDRW file 1:1 scale of your face/surface that you want to have screened, then either add the Fonts you want or else take that 1:1 view - export to Illustrator or some other format - bring it in to a vector based graphics program and send them that file You'll need to know the basics of doing vector-based graphics files tho... I've had so many clients that do stuff and I tell them - "Uh no you can't do things like drill a hole much more that 5 times the drill diameter and have straight. Takes special tooling and machines for that" They say - "But Solidworks let me do it..." I really feel that more people should have to at least once go to a machine shop and fab and build what they do in these packages... they'd learn a lot. Adding a ton of extra faces that the program has to render every time you rotate a view - especially since it is not used for fab - can really slow down your designing.

What version are you using? I believe in 2013 the error was fixed to where it wouldn't come up. This example I'm going to give is the best way to think about this error and hopefully the best way to understand it: If your "cutting tool" (Triangle Sketech) width is greater than your pitch, solidworks will see the sketch as though it has ran into itself after a revolution and the tiny trailing corner is trying to cut something that is not technically there because it has already been cut.

Thanks!

That little triangle that create the sweep around the stock came to a sharp point at 60 degrees, How easy is to put a crest of .0069 or flat and align it perfectly. In this tutorial you used 12 TPI 1/12=.0833 pitch then pitch/12TPI=crest. (.08333/12=.0069) Flat. Not that is critical. But just wondering.

had to change thread relief line to 'centerline' and use 'swept cut'. was using swept boss/base and it was not working. good tutorial, would be better if there was some text to indicate which functions/buttons you were using but hindsight is always 20/20.

thanks a lot!

Thank you for the help. I've been able to do almost all the threading I needed, what I am still having problems with is metric.... primarily .5 pitch. Any suggestions?

Thanks buddy

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o and ajam it depends on what your doing if its a standard thread geo then yea its easy as puting a g72 g92 or g32 to do the thread easy but if you fluting drills or have a bastard thread like the bones screws im doing it is good to pull the geo from the sketch so you can edm a insert , just food for thought but you did say typical machine shop

Whenever I give the swept cut command, this is the message that is being displayed,"A profile and path must be provided to define the sweep.The profile may have more than one contour profile.To make a solid sweep all the contours must be closed and non-intersecting.The same is true for surface sweeps,except that the profiles need not have to be closed". I tried the whole thing 5 or 6 times but its the same message over and over again .What do I have to do?? And I even deleted the line from thread relief.

David, I'm not sure what kind of problem you are having with metric, please explain. I can tell you, however, that you can just change from IPS to Metric within solidworks and input your dimensions as you would in inches.

You may need to zoom real close to your sketch lines and make sure there isn't a tiny line connected at one of the ends that you need to delete. If it doesn't see it as a closed shape it won't let it complete. Also, make sure all of your lines except the shape you are using to cut in the sketch are changed to construction (dashed) lines. Hope this helps, if not let me know and i'll try to help. Thanks.

Getting an odd result where it only carves out the section between the tool and the start of the helix. No idea why, I did nothing different aside from use metric (And those shouldn't effect it anyway).

like a boss!!!!! tnks

Thank you , very helpfull

I'm receiving the following rebuild error. A profile and a path must be provided to define the sweep. The profile may have more than one contour profile. To make a solid sweep, all the countours must be closed and non-intersecting. The same is true for surface sweeps except that the profiles do not have to be closed. Any advice? I replicated the procedure to the Tee.

How would I do this without a thread relief? I can get it to cut, but it ends in a "hard" stop. I want to taper the thread near the ends but a variable pitch helix wont let me sweep cut it for whatever reason. Also, how do i prevent the cutting tool from cutting into the bolt head when it nears the top of the screw? I obviously just want the shaft to be swept cut

I'm a newbie and when I do this on my sketch the spirals stay so I still have those blue lines spinning around the bolt. And if I delete them, the swept cut goes with it.

One more thing I've noticed while watching my video that I'd like to make a note of is that the line I drew at 1:20 to reference the bottom of the thread needs to be either deleted or changed to construction geometry. You'll notice I deleted it in the video real quick without thinking at about 2:50. If you leave this line in without changing it to construction geometry it will not let it complete.

yup works Great!!!!

What happens with SW2013 is that if the triangle width is greater than the pitch the swept cut works but proceeds to cut off more reducing the outside diameter of the solid. If you make the triangle width the *exact* length of the pitch (not subracting the .005) you get the error. I think this is a problem with the software.

All I get is "Sweep operation failed to complete" followed it to a tee and tried three times or more but it will not sweep the cut. ????

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Do you do repairs on stripped threading .

finally an american

when you `muricans go to metric system....

i followed your instructions and the top of my threads look flat :-( is that how it's supposed to be i know its just a representation of a rod but IRL the threads would have some curvature.

choose under Hole wizard a thread and it's done

Why INCHES? WHY?!!

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0:45 bruh you could have done all that with a single revolve.

OK it;s a cosmetic thread not a real one. Also using this method and not the "Thread" function/feature causes solidworks to think for 30 mins if you do a thread longer than 100 mm. NEVER do a thread longer than 100 mm this way unless you have a VERY powerful computer.

You have too many shortcuts on your toolbar, explaining where the selection is originally would make this a better video.

That’s stupid

thanks

thanks for this awesome tutorial!