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How do I thread a bolt?

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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  • mary_morrison111mary_morrison111 Member Posts: 6 EDU
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    Is this an app we would have to buy?
  • mary_morrison111mary_morrison111 Member Posts: 6 EDU
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    Thank you so much everyone!  This has been very helpful!

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  • mary_morrison111mary_morrison111 Member Posts: 6 EDU
    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. 
  • mary_morrison111mary_morrison111 Member Posts: 6 EDU
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    Is this an app we would have to buy?
  • mary_morrison111mary_morrison111 Member Posts: 6 EDU
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    Thank you so much everyone!  This has been very helpful!
  • mahirmahir Member, Developers Posts: 1,291 ✭✭✭✭✭
    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 :)
  • mary_morrison111mary_morrison111 Member Posts: 6 EDU
    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.  
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