WildFire 4.0 Thread Making Attempt (Student Version)

[GeorgeBowman]

I have been attempting to make threads on a bolt with no success, I am following the steps of a PTC Community video posted to YouTube. The video was posted by Steve and this is the link, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgzwgHoJeS4&feature=related .

My interest is only in the making of the threads and I believe that I am following the instructions exactly but it continues to fail, any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Here is a link to my attempt,http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95NZmlZr4FY&feature=youtu.be

I have been able to draw helical protrusions with great success but not cuts.

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[HugoBarosa]

Hello, u can try with no radius and another diffrent value on the pitch. Another option is that in your last dimension increase a litle till you go over the bolt limits.

[GeorgeBowman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-9e6n0mIk

Thank you for your response, your answers may not have been the exact solution but they helped me resolve the problem. It appears that the software will not allow me to put any type of dimension on the line parallel to the center axis of the bolt, in the previous video clip this is the very last dimension that I created.

I made another video showing the technique that I have to use to draw threads, if I want to specify where the thread starts I can add the dimension but in order to get it to generate I have to delete it. This may not be the most desirable technique but after hundreds of attempts changing only one variable at a time this is the first one to work.

Thanks again and be sure to watch the new video.

[TomD.inPDX]

I'm wondering if you have an accuracy issue. Most cad systems don't like working at exact tangents and I am wondering if one of your setting is different leaving a sliver of material that the system doesn't want to create.

I would suggest 2 changes. Put the vector line on the outside surface of the bolt and extend the triangle past it by say .1mm or so.

I have had nothing but problems in the past when Pro/E couldn't make sections just because the cut was right through a tangent feature. There is nothing I can see that you did wrong... but the software sure isn't helping.

[GeorgeBowman]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1-9e6n0mIk

Thank you for your response, your answers may not have been the exact solution but they helped me resolve the problem. It appears that the software will not allow me to put any type of dimension on the line parallel to the center axis of the bolt, in the previous video clip this is the very last dimension that I created.

I made another video showing the technique that I have to use to draw threads, if I want to specify where the thread starts I can add the dimension but in order to get it to generate I have to delete it. This may not be the most desirable technique but after hundreds of attempts changing only one variable at a time this is the first one to work.

Thanks again and be sure to watch the new video.