Hello everyone!
I have a question, i wanna draw a kind of mill-cutter on the head of my screw. I have some pictures where you can see what i mean.
I don’t know how to draw it… anyone who can help me?
I don’t have time to demonstrate, but think of it in 2 main parts.
The head is a cone with 8 wedges cut out of it.
The screw shaft is a cylinder with threads revolved around it (search forum) AND the self tapping cuts are 3 triangles lofted and subtracted from the screw shaft… same principle as the threads.
This might help Threading a screw with Draft
Oh thank you for your reply, i’ll try something!
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You have the idea. Make a pie shape for the wedge, extrude it. Then rotate the surface to make a wedge shape with the move tool. You can do it! Gotta jump in the shower. Good luck.
Hi W.L,
Does this help?
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Whow!! Thank you for this video!
I’ll try that! I never know that that was possible.
Nicely done Bob!
Don’t know how to make a video like Bob did, but here’s another way. I’ll link the file here in native shapr so the steps can be gone back through. Just another way to do it.
Thanks Mike @TigerMike, that means a lot coming from you!
And Alex @APDesignMachine, isn’t Shapr3D great? I’m reminded of Perl programming many years ago and TIMTOWTDI (there is more than one way to do it)
Always another way. I just tried to get a more even face on the serrations vs the curved profile.