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I'm fairly new with the thread lab tool. I use it for internal threads but I have to remember to override the diameter of the hole that the onshape hole feature creates because thread labs adds geometry to the face of the hole instead of cutting it out like a tap. Thankfully I use mostly metric threads and don't have to look up the diameter every time.

@antlu65 no apology necessary! You don't owe us! Thanks for making the tool. It's great work.

I personally use the tool for printed threads. Printing the threads into a part down to M3x.5 is really reliable and tends to be a lot like its own nylok nut. I generally have found my only wish to be the chamfering functionality I mentioned above.

With Onshape implementing external cosmetic threads as time has gone on, I don't know if or when the last time I used it within threadlab. There's of course this feature request:

actual cosmetic threads

I'm not sure what progress there is on that front though.

I'd really appreciate it if they'd put the same effect in the models that is in the drawings but we've all got to take what we get. They're always cooking back there.

Thanks again for all your hard work. I looked into the featurescript and it sure looks like a ton of effort went into it.

Appreciate everyone leaving feedback - apologies for not being in touch and not actively developing this. If I picked this project up again, I would re-write it with fewer 'accessory' features (e.g. thread callout, cosmetic threads, etc) and focus on modeled threads. @john_hauck's detailed post is especially instructive.

@michael_zeagler , @Oliver_Couch , @MDesign , or anyone interested,

Could you offer any comments on how your use cases align (or differ) with what @john_hauck described in his post? What are the most important features you would want to use in a modeled thread feature?

Do you need the MC in the final feature? You could just apply the transform to upperMC cSys, then use plane(cSys).

Otherwise, try:

var newSketchMC = evMateConnector(context, {
                "mateConnector" : qCreatedBy(id + "mateConnector1", EntityType.BODY)
            });


        const sketchUpperID = id + "upperBore";
        const upperBore = newSketchOnPlane(context, id + "sketch1", {
                    "sketchPlane" : plane(newSketchMC)
                });