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Creating internal thread for M3 screw in non-flat surface
marco_h972
Member Posts: 4 ✭
Hello everyone!
I'm new to CAD and just bought myself a 3D printer, I've made a knob that fits on my electric table grill and it went pretty smoothly. I am now trying to design a knob for my fan heater, I need the internal hole of the following document to have a thread that fits an M3 screw:
I have tried using the sweep tool with a helix curve but I was not able to get the desired result, could anyone please help me with this and talk me through on how to do it? I know the document is probably a mess, I would like every suggestion on where I can improve it and what I could do better and how to make that internal thread. Hope someone can help me with this, thank you in advance!
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That is exactly what I ended up doing, I would still love to know how to properly cut a thread in that hole though just to get better at using Onshape, hope someone can help me out!
However if you did want to print a thread (that was large enough), Threadlab is an excellent custom feature (it even includes and "offset" option to add some clearance): https://cad.onshape.com/documents/5c0528b62c1fbb13a2a0e739/v/0bb9d00523f327052c0a2e24/e/7cbb452d4d5e963a034ce616