1 Topic by Stevos758 (edited by Stevos758 2013-10-28 14:23:08)

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Topic: Threads in sketchup. An easy way?

Has anyone found an easy way to create accurate machine threads in sketchup yet?

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Re: Threads in sketchup. An easy way?

The first 90 seconds of this may help.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT5r3AQZBnw
So just a little bit of rotate-multi copy-group-pull-scale, in German(?) smile

The OpenSCAD screw libraries that are out there would be better. Then just bring in the STL, clean it up and make it a component. Maybe this one. http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:8796

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Re: Threads in sketchup. An easy way?

http://reprap.org/wiki/MCAD this is a library of all things useful for openSCAD. It's one of the libraries I import no matter what.

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Re: Threads in sketchup. An easy way?

2n2r5 wrote:

http://reprap.org/wiki/MCAD this is a library of all things useful for openSCAD. It's one of the libraries I import no matter what.

So that is the Karma Sutra of OpenSCAD then?

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Re: Threads in sketchup. An easy way?

I am lost in open scad...... I'll go see if I can figure that stuff out!

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Re: Threads in sketchup. An easy way?

Maybe this tutorial will help you: http://sketchucation.com/forums/viewtop … mp;t=38990

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