Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] threads in 3D CAD

On 22/02/2013 3:30 AM, Steve Blackmore wrote:

> On Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:47:21 -0000, you wrote:
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>> Hello group
>>
>> Some years ago I took several trade school classes in CNC. The software was Inventor and Mastercam. Although I knew that I could never afford to own either, using them in class conditioned my expectations of what software should do, and I assumed that over time less costly programs would come to offer similar capabilities.
>>
>> Getting to the point, IIRC, parametric generation of threads of virtually any spec was easy in Inventor, and I assumed that some similar, if not so elegant, capability would be included in any 3D modeling application. Now I have just learned to my great surprise that Rhino, which had become my aim to acquire, has no thread modeling capabilities.
> You can model a thread in Rhino. You draw a helix of the correct
> diameter/pitch then loft the thread shape along the helix path. If you
> look on the Rhino site I'm sure there is a tutorial somewhere.
>
> Also there is a plugin at
>
> http://www.rhino3d.com/resources?id=4889
>
>
> Steve Blackmore
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>

Hi Steeve,
You meant Sweep, right?
Gaston



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