Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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MostlyHarmless wrote: Sun Jan 07, 2018 7:47 pm don't know what slicer you are using, but Cura has settings to force a minimum time per layer. It is actually a whole slew of options. It can slow down the print or it can retract filament, lift extruder and wait.
Cura is my slicer and I used these settings. For the second example I had set the minimum time but missed the minimum slow down speed and the "lift head" parameter, so it was still too soft.
For the last example I didn't dare to use the "lift head" because I was afraid of the defects due to stop and restart of the print. And it would have taken 45 minutes instead of 10.
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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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Ive been working on a 3D printer project. Im making a filament reel hub. It has two parts that screw together in the center. I used an M42 tap and cut it out of the center shape. For the male end, i converted the tap to a "course" mesh using the mesh workbench.

Then i used mesh lab to rescale the mesh in the x and y by 0.97. Then i export this back into my Freecad project, turned the mesh into a shape and then into a solid. This way i can incorporate that slightly smaller screw size for the male part.

Just thought I would share that in case it helps anyone.

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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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I plan, hopefully soon, to have a preference checkbox that will generate the screw threads to be 3D printer compatible.
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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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Hi shaise,
shaise wrote: Mon Jan 14, 2019 7:03 am ping
could you plase have a look to a little other prob to:

At an other thread (cant find it atm) you wrote, that the screw diameter will be set to the next smaller (fitting) diameter as the hole diameter.
But it dosn't... If i have a hole with 6,2mm diameter and the edge of it, the insertet screw (also a washer) has a diameter of 8mm.

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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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There are 2 options: 1 select next smaller diameter, 2 select next bigger (assuming this hole is supposed to be tapped)
At the toolbar there are 2 buttons to change from mode 1 to 2
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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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shaise wrote: Mon Jan 14, 2019 11:50 am There are 2 options: 1 select next smaller diameter, 2 select next bigger (assuming this hole is supposed to be tapped)
At the toolbar there are 2 buttons to change from mode 1 to 2
That makes no different, i always got the next bigger one.
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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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you are right. there is a bug. will check
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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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It should be fixed now. please update, check and let me know
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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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shaise wrote: Mon Jan 14, 2019 4:31 pm It should be fixed now. please update, check and let me know
Yes, now it works, - thank you very much.
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Re: Fasteners Workbench thread and head scaling

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Hi Everyone,

Due to repeated requests I have decided to implement MostlyHarmless's feature in order to 3D print functional screws and nuts. Instead of doing it as a property of each fastener, I have added general settings section (Edit -> preferences -> fasteners) to enable/disable/tweak fastener thread generation.
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using this, I was able to generate functional fasteners compatible both with 3d printed counter parts, and standard metal parts.
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The above settings were good for my printer, but I guess will have to be played with to apply to other printers / filaments. I used 0.1 layer height and was able to print down to m4 functional screws/nuts.
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