Why Your 3D Printed Threads Don't Work

[@goengineer]

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[@ColdSideOfMyPillow]

This is the most incredible video I’ve been looking for exactly this for a couple days. Going through tons of trial and error with 3d printing threads.

[@timganstrom1907]

Ok, that was super helpful!! Great tip.

[@SeenAndCheese]

Inspired!

[@PavelSusin]

Thanks for making this! Why not use the indent feature instead of combine? - It allows to control the cut tolerance directly from the feature.

[@goengineer]

There are almost always multiple ways to do something in SOLIDWORKS. Combine is probably the more commonly used feature to accomplish this, but an indent would work too. Good idea!

[@Александр-с1г5в]

Thanks, really useful.

[@Slipboden]

Awesome and thank you! Will rry this on a project tomorrow 👌

[@osherezra8460]

Great Trick bro Thanks for that :)

[@Sharberboy]

So obvious question, why not reduce layer height to get better quality threads?

[@Mydrich]

Super useful thanks!

[@goengineer]

Happy to help!

[@ryderswett4669]

Amazing thank you!

[@censoredeveryday3320]

Very helpful.

[@Boyscout533]

Thank you for the video! I followed your instructions and now my threads are the envy of my Tool Design classmates. If you are like me, and only wanted to scale the threads, you can use the split feature to cut your part so that the threads are seppearted from the main body. Then you can scale it in the Y and move the faces of the threads as shown in the video above. Here's a link to another video on using the split feature: ​kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqmtoHysgdF6edk&ab_channel=TriMechGroup

[@rosswagner3021]

Will this be the same for DLP printers?

[@goengineer]

Yes!

[@rosswagner3021]

@@goengineer Thank you!

[@viniac.]

awesome

[@MTheConqueror]

I need a Fusion 360 version of this tutorial 😇

[@TC-dk6do]

unfortunately, this scales the whole part not just the threaded section.

[@goengineer]

You can apply the scale feature to individual bodies in the command manager. I would suggest using the Split feature to cut the bolt into 2 bodies so that you can scale only the threaded feature and leave the head of the bolt as-is.

[@969IIBelial]

wait you call yourself engineer and dont even tell people how to srs fix a metric thread to 3d print? even dont tell them that solidworks doing only nominal threads that are not working for production cause 0 tollerances? you have to explain now why do you call yourself GoEngineer :DDD