Metric Thread in Solidworks 2008?

[Dido]

Hello everyone,

 

Can anyone please tell me how to create a metric thread in Solidworks 2008 and export it as .STL file for prototyping?

 

Thanks in advance

 

Dido

[shift1313]

Is it a standard thread or something special? Is it male or female thread? I dont recall if 08 has any threads in the hole wizard but if you let me know the size/pitch and if its male or female ill try and help you out.

[Dido]

Is it a standard thread or something special? Is it male or female thread? I dont recall if 08 has any threads in the hole wizard but if you let me know the size/pitch and if its male or female ill try and help you out.

 

It's a standard metric thread.

 

Both, I need to export a .stl file of male and female standard metric thread.

[shift1313]

Well the general procedure you can find on my site in my sig. Go to the Features section, Sweep, and then page 7 of the sweep feature. You can either Sweep-cut away the thread or you can do a solid sweep operation and add the thread. Since you didnt list what size you want I dont have any dimensions to help you but you need to understand what the thread sizes mean.

 

 

For a 10mm x 1.5 you have 10mm major diameter and 1.5mm between threads. For standard sizes the thread designation is threads per inch. so a 10-32 would be 32 threads per inch.