Cutting a Thread on a Helix
Cutting a Thread on a Helix
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Good afternoon, I have a model with a extruded surface and a 2 degree taper. I add a helix and gave it a 2 degree taper as well. Then I created a profile and had it pierce the helix thru the center point of the radius at the bottom of the profile. The profile was fully defined. I then tried a sweep cut with the created profile as the profile and the helix as the path and all it will do is error out with a message the says Sweep Operation failed to complete. I used the standard default setting for the sweep. This is almost the same procedure I used to make springs, except there I used extrude sweep and everything comes out correctly there. Any suggestions on what I am doing wrong here? Thank you in advance for any assistance or advice.






RE: Cutting a Thread on a Helix
Did you create a plane normal to the helix curve for planting your cutting profile sketch? That ought to help. Also, does your profile sketch overlap itself in areas along the helix? If so, see if you can trim it down so it doesn't overlap.
If this still doesn't work, check out the first and third tutorial here:
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It's a different method for doing something like this and works great with more difficult geometries.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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Dan
www.eltronresearch.com
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