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How do I thread a bolt?
mary_morrison111
Posts: 6 EDU
I'm new to Onshape. I'm a high school teacher who just started using this program. My students are designing toy trains. We need to do a bolt with specs of 1/4 - 20 UNC 1/2" OFFSET for the threads. I cannot find a tool to do this. Please help.
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Many types of standard hardware are available to insert into an assembly. When in an assembly tab, just click Insert. Next, select the Standard Content tap.
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They can if they add this to their toolbar, or they can model it by hand.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6b640a407d78066bd5e41c7a/v/845d049782179b9faee8b6e6/e/f8aea9e5c33e02eab0854a4f
Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA6 -
Is this an app we would have to buy?0
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No, it only costs you 3 mouse clicks
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Thank you so much everyone! This has been very helpful!0
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That makes sense. If it's more about the exercise than the result (learning about threads, not just having them), then they'll have to:mary_morrison111 said:It's in the curriculum. I think it's there so the students are forced to understand what pitch is, and how to read the specifications. That's a very interesting point though and I will pass it along. Thank you and thank you for all your help today. Switching from teaching Autodesk Inventor in a school computer lab to teaching Onshape in distance learning overnight has been challenging. I truly appreciate the community of people, including you, who are supporting me.- make a cylinder with the correct diameter. (major dia for cutting threads or minor dia for adding them)
- make a helix on the cylinder with the correct pitch.
- sketch the thread profile
- sweep the profile.
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Many types of standard hardware are available to insert into an assembly. When in an assembly tab, just click Insert. Next, select the Standard Content tap.
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Thank you. I assigned students to create their own bolt with threads. We could do that in Autodesk Inventor. I guess we can't here. I appreciate your help.0
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They can if they add this to their toolbar, or they can model it by hand.
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6b640a407d78066bd5e41c7a/v/845d049782179b9faee8b6e6/e/f8aea9e5c33e02eab0854a4f
Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA6 -
Is this an app we would have to buy?0
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No, it only costs you 3 mouse clicks
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Thank you so much everyone! This has been very helpful!0
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I know this is an educational exercise, and I I'm probably being pedantic, but in general one shouldn't model threads unless absolutely necessary. You'd be surprised how often I see professional engineers bog down their models with threaded screws. The only time fully modeled threads are truly useful is if it's a larger thread that's being 3D printed, or if they are normally suppressed but were unsuppressed for a pretty picture. McMaster-Carr, I'm looking at you...
Just something to pass on to your students. Gotta start them young
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It's in the curriculum. I think it's there so the students are forced to understand what pitch is, and how to read the specifications. That's a very interesting point though and I will pass it along. Thank you and thank you for all your help today. Switching from teaching Autodesk Inventor in a school computer lab to teaching Onshape in distance learning overnight has been challenging. I truly appreciate the community of people, including you, who are supporting me.0
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That makes sense. If it's more about the exercise than the result (learning about threads, not just having them), then they'll have to:mary_morrison111 said:It's in the curriculum. I think it's there so the students are forced to understand what pitch is, and how to read the specifications. That's a very interesting point though and I will pass it along. Thank you and thank you for all your help today. Switching from teaching Autodesk Inventor in a school computer lab to teaching Onshape in distance learning overnight has been challenging. I truly appreciate the community of people, including you, who are supporting me.- make a cylinder with the correct diameter. (major dia for cutting threads or minor dia for adding them)
- make a helix on the cylinder with the correct pitch.
- sketch the thread profile
- sweep the profile.
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