How to make screw threads?
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Thread title should perhaps refer to bolt thread, which I am happy to learn about, but I am looking for screw thread.
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@roger said:Reminds me of the building I passed on the way home this morning. It was the "Pilgrim Screw Company". It seems like a straight line looking for a joke.
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Hi Gilles, I just downloaded both attachments from your post April 17 2010 and laast edited Mar8 2010. I have them showing up in my plugins when opening sketchup 8 but can't see them in the file folder, kind of strange. One shows up as "screw" and the other as "screw 21". What I need is a tutorial as I don't have the slightest clue how to use them. When I click on the tutorial link on this discussion it brings me to the ruby depot library homepage and if I look under A-Z I can only see the download that doesn't work and no tutorial. Best regards, Mike
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Screw1_5.rb is the one you need (screw in plugins window)
Have a look at Rich's tutorial:
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@rich o brien said:
Hi,
Here's how to use this plugin....Hello,
Was looking for this today. Works like a charm ! Thanks.
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I'm the last guy to the party. I'm trying to figure this out for 3d printing. Is the plugin used in the example the "Screw_21.RB" and "Screw 1_5.rb" links that were posted?
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The v1.5 RB file is the newest one [unfortunately it was misnamed by its author ! as explained in an earlier post...]
Download it, and manually put that .RB file into your [hidden] Plugins folder, alternatively you can ZIP it and then add .RBZ to the end of the ZIP file, to change its file-type.
Then you can install that RBZ, using the native Install Extension processes...The tutorial referenced in this thread covers how to use it...
This post might also be of interest...
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Draw Whorl??
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@humpmetwice said:
Draw Whorl??
Good suggestion as long as you aren't interested in standard thread profiles.
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So far it's working really well for me with the whole Dave Method and then using the upright extruder with a thread profile.
I'm printing at 0.06MM layer height to get accurate threads but it seems to be working, I managed to match an existing thread for a part I'm trying to replicate out of PETG as the existing is crap.
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