Designing a Hex Nut (Tutorial)

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In part 2 of this step-by-step tutorial, ‪@TooTallToby‬ shows us how to transfer the threads from one component into another component, with clearance, so the 2 components may be threaded together!
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[@floretan]

The "keep tools" option from the boolean operation would let you skip the copying of the bolt, and still have both parts that can be exported at once.

[@TooTallToby]

ahhh - great suggestion thanks!

[@michtill]

@@TooTallToby+ Offset all ;)

[@TooTallToby]

I think I tried offset all but it got jammed up around the area where the head of the bolt and the threads came together (I'll have to go try it again) @@michtill

[@johnnyknap]

Your tutorials are excellent Toby .You make it look easy when I’m following along . Many thanks

[@TooTallToby]

Awesome thanks Johnny! Glad these are helpful!

[@pusnirizda5481]

Great tutorial, but please setup an app to show your hotkeys right on the screen.

[@TooTallToby]

ok!

[@LifeofJY]

oh damn haha, I'm learning Onshape now so i just assumed this would be an old video but i see it was posted 3 days ago, Scores!. 10/10! this video showed and explained some very cool functions I'm excited to add to the mental tool box.

[@TooTallToby]

Awesome to hear and so glad this helps! 😁

[@clivemorris4845]

Great tutorial, thanks, both printed out and looking good!

[@ThatTattooGuyOfficial]

is there a way just to type in the thread pitch?

[@TooTallToby]

There's a featurescript to auto create threads - I don't know what its called but you can search the forums

Thanks! (for this and the previous tutorials you made, really helped get my onshape skills on a more serious base). You can use keep tools in the boolean operations instead of doing a copy beforehand by the way.

[@TooTallToby]

Awesome glad these tutorials are helpful! Also good to know that we can do this another way! I love onshape!

[@MrNatural451]

kaBAMM! This is what I've been missing. THANK YOU!

[@TooTallToby]

Awww yeah!! Glad this helps!!

[@config2000]

This got me thinking. Perhaps a master headless threaded bar could be created. Then, for screws a different type of head can be created on top (e.g. hex bolt, socket cap, countersunk, set screw type), and for the mating part the threaded bar can be used as the cutter. That way you can create hex nuts, square nuts, rounded nuts .. etc.

[@TooTallToby]

Ohh yeah good idea! that would be awesome!!

[@jamiemacdonald436]

Great tutorial Toby! 🤌

[@TooTallToby]

thanks Jamie!

[@yalinvision]

great video, I love your way of explaining. please preach more Onshape

[@TooTallToby]

Thanks Yalinvision! Glad this style is helpful!

[@diecamdia]

It's a good tutorial!! A tutorial on ball joints would be interesting.

[@TooTallToby]

Ok good to know! Thanks!

[@chrisbeare806]

Great set of videos. Thank you!

[@TooTallToby]

Thanks Chris! Glad this helped!

[@flyingthebigsky]

Awesome videos! I've been doing it wrong and the hard way....lol. Thank you

[@TooTallToby]

Awww yeah nice! Glad this helped!

[@peterhendriks1972]

Thank you very much..... i have learned a lot.... 👍

[@airwick5083]

Nice tutorial Toby! I did have a few thoughts on how the geometry from the bolt could be re-used even more effectively to create the nut... Rather than typing it in here I posted a quick video response on my channel so go check that out if you are interested in an alternate way of doing this! Basically the nut can be created using 5 features without creating any new sketches or reference geometry!

[@TooTallToby]

Awww yeah i look forward to seeing it! Thanks Airwick!

[@julesmarcu5635]

Great tutorial TTT

[@TooTallToby]

Thanks!

[@henninghoefer]

At 5:30 my «Feature Mirror» Dialog looks different, it has an additional «Reapply features» checkbox, that I need to check to get it to work. Otherwise I get an error: «Mirror 1 did not regenerate properly: Could not create all instances as entered. Try selecting "Reapply features" option.»

[@TooTallToby]

Nice! Probably an update since I shot the video. Good to know and thanks for sharing! I'm sure that will help some of the other users who are trying to click along with!

[@PedePedersen]

👌🔩

[@svenolovnystrom2351]

Great,. i use to scale the bolt in x and y direktion and make a boolean it is faster . For plastic screws you can download stil model From screwerk.de

[@TooTallToby]

Ohhh good idea using SCALE! I'm gonna try that!