How to model threads in SolidWorks for 3D Printing (Full Tutorial)

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This video is a detailed tutorial that guides you through the full process of designing a model in SolidWorks with threads and how to print that model.
A shortened version of this tutorial can be seen at • How to model threads i...
Final Models are available on Thingiverse here: www.thingiverse.com/thing:297...
Anet A8: www.sainsmart.com/products/sa...
Key Points in this tutorial:
0:10 - Introduction to the model
0:59 - Main Box Design
3:38 - Initial Cap Design
6:49 - Cap Grip Design
10:54 - Cap Threads
20:03 - Cap with Larger Threads (for subtraction)
23:26 - Cap with Large Threads Subtracted from Main Box
26:27 - Thread Inspection in SolidWorks
27:30 - Slicing Models for 3D Printing
28:45 - Time Lapse of Models Printing
30:26 - Anet A8 Overview
30:58 - Final Wrap Up

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@rayknn 3 жыл бұрын

Tips for solidworks: Use convert entities, and when seleting reference geometry > axes, you can actually select the face of a cillinder and it will place a axes in the middle of it. Great tutorial!

@johnpelitidis6297 3 ай бұрын

Thank you very much Conor. You instructional is the best out there... and you narration about why you decided on things is tremendously important for the viewer to understand. ... Outstanding !🙂

@benmorris9925 2 жыл бұрын

Legend. First genuinely practical tutorial I've found on threading!

@sondrewks Жыл бұрын

Thank you Conor! Absolutely great video. Very thorough, great for learning your ways around Solidworks. Hope to see more videos on solidworks and more of your engeneering knowledge 😊 Much love from Norway

@DublinV1 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for this tutorial gave me a starting point to design threads on SW for 3D printing

@ivytechengineer 2 жыл бұрын

Excellent video with great insight for creating threaded models that can be 3D printed. Very well done.

@coreyknowlton7827 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Drew it, printed it and it works like a champ! The combine tip is very useful. Hadn't done that before, but will definitely use it for other threaded projects. Well done! Thanks.

@michaelkostan4279 4 жыл бұрын

Great tutorial, just made my first 3D thread, Thank you !

@chrisswift8725 Жыл бұрын

Really enjoy following this along; drawing in SolidWorks as I go; great to learn about required tolerances and tips and tricks for 3-D print beginners. Much appreciated.

@armoredinnovations2331 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the combine tip! It's made other projects easier to complete

@ssiewnad Жыл бұрын

I have over 29 years experience using Pro-E/Creo, this was very helpful to help me make the transition to SW. Thank you very much

@mallyclips9213 4 жыл бұрын

I tried this thread and it works well. Thanks for the video!

@Aurelian76 5 жыл бұрын

Cheers Conor, you're awesome. It worked start to finish. Now off to the 3D printer (Public Library unfortunately) Will see how it goes.

@g_rr_tt Ай бұрын

To anyone watching, Solidworks has a feature under insert > features > threads and from there you can select the surface you want threads on and the parameters based on standard thread sizes (i.e. M10 x 1 or 1/4"-20). for female thread patterns, be sure to change the parameters to "cut" threads and "tap" for male, "extrude" and "die". This will save you from having to manually create your threads.

@hasankassas5751 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for creating this well detailed guide for threads, helped me a lot

@Perce1ver 4 жыл бұрын

Just what I needed! Many thanks!

@toonthijs2868 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video Conor! I learned some new features. Keep up the good work!

@ravikattakwal 2 жыл бұрын

Very practical video. Love it. Please keep making such videos man!

@patxiplg 4 жыл бұрын

Very good tutorial, thank you for your time! It helped a lot.

@Pis-rm6xn Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this great tutorial full of tips, clearly gained by experience! You really helped me out big time! Legend

@abdulmajeedsuhail7468 2 жыл бұрын

As a noob, I really have learned a lot from this video. Thanks a lot!

@LuUhsar Жыл бұрын

Thank you for this great tutorial! Exactly what I was looking for!

@damnstudios7 5 жыл бұрын

Great! Fantastic explanation!

@mustafasuzun 3 жыл бұрын

great trick when you make it with subtract. Thank you.

@jonms83 5 жыл бұрын

Very cool, thanks for the video!

@azvrmechanicaluniverse8922 5 жыл бұрын

Professional video! Great thank you!

@shilpisinghal810 4 жыл бұрын

Great Work Man.

@juliomtblife 5 жыл бұрын

many thanks for your video Conor, very good!!!

@WalkerBikes 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! got me in the right direction

@hericperez 4 жыл бұрын

Well done! Thanks!

@fallenslave6684 5 жыл бұрын

This is so great!

@HA-ij5zw 4 жыл бұрын

Great thanks!!!!!! Do make more these types of videos…

@samuellane6316 3 жыл бұрын

Very well done.

@higormeca 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome, thank you!

@jastiles2 5 жыл бұрын

Good Job! This has helped me learn how to use Solidworks in a short amount of time. Thank you.

@FLORIDIANMILLIONAIRE 4 ай бұрын

Great video

@houssemeddine2830 5 жыл бұрын

great video! thank you for that it's very helpful :)

@mariocan976 4 жыл бұрын

muchas gracias!!!! me ayudo harto!

@at-mat3789 Жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot!

@TheStonedweedsmoker 4 жыл бұрын

love it ! cheers

@christianp3388 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice

@yvieoce 4 жыл бұрын

superb that you! awesome

@jstokes6726 4 жыл бұрын

When you created your offset geometry by 0.2mm for the thread clearance, there was no need to manually change the original lines to construction. The offset command has options to auto convert base or new geometry to construction type. Regardless, well done and very helpful.

@conorwalsh_net 4 жыл бұрын

I hadn't known that, that's very helpful thank you!

@yefetyy 4 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@Basha-lt6zz 3 жыл бұрын

Great video thank you. I just have something would like to share. When you made the thread actually you added material, you were supposed to swept cut better but I guess with 3d printer it will work

@vespworks 3 жыл бұрын

I believe you could have used the indent feature to create the body thread, which allows to “cut” with a clearance included. This eliminates the need for the extra part you created or the combine step.

@kwangi 5 жыл бұрын

perfect video! thank you!

@normreed9886 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice. Your viewers might like to see the same sort of thing done with 2-3 threads instead of 1..if they are looking for faster tighten down.

@heitor9292 4 жыл бұрын

You can increase the helix pitch and copy it. if you increase it by 2x, you need to use 2 helixes (2 threads), and so on.

@Aurelian76 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome. Thanks a lot. I did it. It worked great. I used a LULZBOT TAZ printer and worked great! Thanks man. Would it be possible to provide the technical drawing for this? Would really appreciate it. Cheers.

@samsteel4456 3 жыл бұрын

You could avoid all of the offset stuff for thread clearance by simply using the indent feature to cut the threads in the "box/container" which has a built in clearance parameter. Would save you much time and effort.

@bardluck2625 2 жыл бұрын

You know ? The question is that could you show it for us sucessfully ? waiting...................

@septiand1082 4 жыл бұрын

COOL..

@Rallyman240 4 жыл бұрын

Quick note: There's no need to create an axis for circular patterns. You can either turn on temporary axes and select one of those, or simply pick a radial surface.

@conorwalsh_net 4 жыл бұрын

Thats useful to know, I may try that out. Thanks!

@raykwa965 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks that was helpful. Wondering if you have tried a smaller wall thickness than 4mm? I guess that would require the thread size to be smaller than 2.2mm as well.

@airsubzero Жыл бұрын

Brilliant even though I had a lot of trouble cuz of the video's low sound

@maynardaba9939 4 жыл бұрын

Thumbs up from me

@fiQmeister 5 жыл бұрын

How much space should I put between these 2 objects' diameter in order to stop them from being stuck?

@yosabbbbb 4 жыл бұрын

thank you for the tutorial, it really helped, is there a way to mate threads so they can mimic the movement?

@conorwalsh_net 4 жыл бұрын

You might be able to mate the helix's but I'm not sure I just mated to concentric circles and positioned it manually to check the part was correct though

@Fetchdk 3 жыл бұрын

Hi. Thanks for a great video. Any trouble printing the thread, overhang wise.? The angle is around 70 degrees which is quite a lot.

@sujaydesai1213 4 жыл бұрын

Nicely explained! Definitely giving this a try. Just keep in mind that a mil equals a thou and NOT a millimeter.

@conorwalsh_net 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! That's a fair point, when I made this I hadnt really considered that people might be still designing using imperial. The mils and millis thing has caused more than a few engineering disasters! Mils is always millimetres in the EU. I definitely would not recommend designing anything in imperial it's just not as practical or usable as metric.

@chuckjudy3474 Жыл бұрын

Using the indent feature instead of subtract would allow you to add a tolerance between the two mating parts.

@flyingjeep911 3 жыл бұрын

how did you get the extra clearance in the internal threads?

@AJAYKRISHNAMBME 3 жыл бұрын

Heya, So while you cut the threads in the cylindrical cup Solidworks gives me the error of over defining. Not sure why that doesn't seem to happen in your case.

@fubrian2945 4 жыл бұрын

The subtract function didn't give me an inside thread like in the video. It simply deleted the body. HELP!!!

@marioc39 4 жыл бұрын

is there a reason you decided to create that plane for the helix? instead of using the bottom face and using that as the starting point for the helix, and using that bottom face as the sketch midpoint for the thread sketch? or would that not work

@robertschaefer4918 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot for your smart presentation! So far I used Fusion360 and I see, that Solidworks works quite similiar. Is there no automatic threading in solidworks? You did it manually ... Greetings from Munich. (One Proposal by a foreigner: Please speak a little bit more articulated /louder , so foreigner may understand better what you say, thanks)

@prototype3839 2 жыл бұрын

Hey, nice work! What's the material used for this print?

@abdelrahman5326 Жыл бұрын

Aowesome

@rytisbertulis3325 3 ай бұрын

I am struggling with helix. The start point does not alight with the thread profile sketch and I have no idea how to modify the helix start point. Can anyone help? :)

@israeln864 6 жыл бұрын

Hi How do you make the combine and you get the tolerance between the male and female?

@sinuhe5689 5 жыл бұрын

At 21:30 he was adding the offseton by making the thread in the copied cap a little bit bigger 0.2mm if Im not wrong which then will combine with the second piece

@nilsblumfelds9603 Ай бұрын

Didnt get how did you enlarge the thread, could you please clarify?

@Trumppower 5 жыл бұрын

what about the thread feature on solidworks ? will it work on 3d printing ?

@pintail120 4 жыл бұрын

i have tried it and it does not work, prolly for a few reasons, one is solidworks makes threads that are perfectly matched, there is no clearance between them. I have tried to change the clearances but its not easy, I can see how to change the height and the width but not the angle.

@ihavenoname3370 4 жыл бұрын

Yes it works fine but you have to make clearance manually. Make outer diameter of male part a little smaller and inner diameter of female part a little bigger before you apply threads and it will make a gap between the threads. I think I used about 0.6mm clearance for M12x1.5 threads. Try different diameters until you find one that looks about right.

@mosabalwan8967 3 ай бұрын

Would you please show the drawings and how would you do the drawings for this model?

@dr.danielkester9313 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I love the subtraction feature. Quick question: Why is the cutting/ extrusion better than just using the "thread" feature?

@conorwalsh_net 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Daniel, I don't think the threads feature had been released when I made this project. But it is a great addition to Solidworks and it is a much easier method of making threads than the one I describe in the video. I might update the video in the future to reflect this change.

@dr.danielkester9313 5 жыл бұрын

@@conorwalsh_net I guess it's good to know about both. I'm trying to make threads for an american garden hose (female) for a project. The hose threads are 11.5 and I didn't see that in the thread feature but maybe I'm looking in the wrong place!

@pentachronic 4 жыл бұрын

The big question is does Solidworks thread tool provide for relief between the extruded thread and the cut thread ?

@FuriousImp 4 жыл бұрын

@@dr.danielkester9313 Just a thought - maybe you can create a 10, and then in the slicer settings you print it at 115%? Would that work?

@raykwa965 3 жыл бұрын

@@pentachronic I am trying it now and don't see a way to create the clearance with the Solidworks Threads feature

@Moroder_Drone Жыл бұрын

Anyway I have followed all the indications several times, and it does not turn out right. The threads do not match when I inspect with a cross section. I give in

@tonyhill8300 3 жыл бұрын

Can this be printed in one together?

@harshiljogi9750 4 жыл бұрын

You said, all key dimensions in ur printer must be multiple of 0.4, why is it and how can i know that of my printer ?? I am a beginner.

@conorwalsh_net 4 жыл бұрын

The nozzle on my printer is 0.4mm wide you could use different measurements but they may not be exact as the printer will approximate some of the measurements to multiples of its nozzle width it works fine for most prints but when you need exact tolerances for parts to fit together it can be important

@fredobrah9320 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the video, very helpful. I might suggest speaking and recording louder.

@fns58 3 жыл бұрын

Why not directly using the thread feature?

@muhammadfahadzahid7202 3 жыл бұрын

why not use Solidworks Thread tool?

@rudreshjoshi8693 4 жыл бұрын

price of printer

@anwerr37 3 жыл бұрын

Do you think water will leak from this design?

@unclerico1980 3 жыл бұрын

I’d think so. Maybe set up the drawing for an o-ring at the top so the cap seals against the base

@sidekick3rida 4 жыл бұрын

Thanks but needs better audio.

@PyroEskimo7 4 жыл бұрын

Definitely. I couldn't get past the first 5 minutes as I couldn't hear the audio very well even with my speakers turned to 100%

@jimmyc451 4 жыл бұрын

why doednt solidworks have "threads" tools?

@siddiet17 4 жыл бұрын

It does. if you go to insert>features>Thread

@loganthemachine7841 4 жыл бұрын

0.6 gap? I don’t think you need more than a half inch of gap. .060 would be a mile of clearance. .006 is would be fairly impressive from a 3D printer.

@conorwalsh_net 4 жыл бұрын

It's 0.6mm not 0.6" which is roughly 0.02" I would not recommend using imperial for something like 3D printing that requires such precision. I'm in Europe so I would never use anything but mm for engineering projects