Advanced Member arumiat Posted June 29, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 I'm trying my hand at some hard surface modelling and was wondering whether there's a technique to generate screw threads. I can see theres a pre-existing model but is there a way to create your own whereby you can change the thread offset, profile and distance between threads etc? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Contributor Michaelgdrs Posted June 29, 2015 Contributor Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 I believe that there is no way doing this in 3d coat yet. I see no screw "template" 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member benk Posted June 29, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 29, 2015 Hey T you can always use the bolt add on in Blender and export the .obj to 3DC. bk 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member arumiat Posted June 30, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Cheers guys. Ben I will probably end up doing this, - I was wondering whether I could keep my entire workflow in 3DC, I'm feeling very rusty in Blender! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Hugues Posted June 30, 2015 Member Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Just a thought, I'm no expert, in the primitives, there is a coil object, can't you subtract this volume from a cylinder ? That would be close to a screw, although not the exact shape. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
New Member Solution dak Posted June 30, 2015 New Member Solution Report Share Posted June 30, 2015 Check this: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Extensions:2.6/Py/Scripts/Add_Mesh/BoltFactory 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member arumiat Posted July 2, 2015 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 2, 2015 The Blender bolt addon worked great, thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member The Candy-floss Kid Posted July 2, 2015 Advanced Member Report Share Posted July 2, 2015 You could use the warp tool - twist to make threads or twisted braid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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