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cfly  
#1 Posted : Saturday, September 12, 2015 11:55:35 PM(UTC)
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I'm new to Viacad Pro v9. But I have experience with Vectorworks as well as SolidWorks. Unfortunateley now that I have retired I can no longer afford either of them.

One of the reasons I bought Viacad was its symbol libraries which promised thousands of 3D symbols. Now I see they are essentially useless for what I want which is a threaded hole in a part and the correspnding fastener.

I have crawled through the forums which tell me to go find 3D models at Macmaster Carr among others. Well, I have tried that but I am not finding any such libraries for download. A little help please.

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#2 Posted : Sunday, September 13, 2015 1:52:53 AM(UTC)
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i usually go to Grabcad for technical models, you might try your luck there.

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#3 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2015 4:19:45 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: cfly Go to Quoted Post


I have crawled through the forums which tell me to go find 3D models at Macmaster Carr among others. Well, I have tried that but I am not finding any such libraries for download. A little help please.

cfly




Hello cfly

McMaster carr has 3d models of fasteners but you have to download each one you need there are no libraries to download a bunch at once.

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cfly  
#4 Posted : Monday, September 14, 2015 4:36:25 PM(UTC)
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Yes, I saw that. I suppose I could try that and just download each one that I use.

Thank you

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#5 Posted : Tuesday, September 15, 2015 5:08:56 AM(UTC)
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you may want check the following too:

http://www.traceparts.com/
http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/
http://cad.thomasnet.com/

do prefer the SAT format (if available) which is native for ViaCAD (ACIS kernel), otherwise STEP.
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cfly  
#6 Posted : Saturday, September 19, 2015 5:07:00 PM(UTC)
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I tried all three of those. While the 3D drawings are there they do not show the threads. That's true of almost everywhere I looked.

I have flound a OPENScad script called ISOThread.scad. OPENScad is programmable and Trevor Moseley has writted an scad scipt with produceds finished metric bolts and internal threads. I have the script source. I don't think it will be very difficultt to create one for Imperial threads.

The scad script generates meshes which I was able to convert to a solid by stitching. And the resulting solid correctly forms the external or internal thread when added or subtracted to the object needing threaded holes.

So I saved an internal thread m8-10 as a symbol.

When I use concept explorer to add the symbol, the symbol cannot be added or subtracted from the parent object.

Any suggestions. If I get this to work I will create a symbol library and donate it.

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#7 Posted : Saturday, September 19, 2015 11:20:37 PM(UTC)
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did you ungroup the symbol after dragging into the drawing?
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#8 Posted : Monday, October 5, 2015 10:35:48 AM(UTC)
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Is the openscad part a polygon mesh or a mathematically precise solid that you are trying to subtract from another part?
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#9 Posted : Tuesday, October 6, 2015 2:33:10 AM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: cfly Go to Quoted Post
I'm new to Viacad Pro v9. But I have experience with Vectorworks as well as SolidWorks. Unfortunateley now that I have retired I can no longer afford either of them.

One of the reasons I bought Viacad was its symbol libraries which promised thousands of 3D symbols. Now I see they are essentially useless for what I want which is a threaded hole in a part and the correspnding fastener.

I have crawled through the forums which tell me to go find 3D models at Macmaster Carr among others. Well, I have tried that but I am not finding any such libraries for download. A little help please.


You could try this post
Bill Bedford

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