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cutsrock  
#1 Posted : Monday, January 16, 2012 10:58:20 AM(UTC)
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I have been modeling a Ultralight aircraft and needed 3d models of various lengths of aircraft grade bolts.So using a couple different tutorials I downloaded from this site I set out to model the AN3, AN4, and AN5 bolts. As now, the models have been saved as ViaCad8 2D3D files. I will save them eventually as symbols. I am attaching one of the bolt files for review

Jim
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Filip  
#2 Posted : Friday, February 10, 2012 1:46:23 PM(UTC)
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Do you have more 3d solid bolts that could you share with others?
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Pathmender  
#3 Posted : Saturday, February 11, 2012 8:46:04 AM(UTC)
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Is there a specific tool for drawing thread like this model uses?

If not, is there a tutorial for this process?
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Filip  
#4 Posted : Sunday, February 12, 2012 8:26:00 AM(UTC)
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Yes, there is on Punch Blog or you will find one on youtube.
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cutsrock  
#5 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 7:56:06 PM(UTC)
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Yes Filip, I have modeled each AN3 & AN4 bolt. I tried to attach zip files of the bolts but the upload failed due to a missing security token. So I can attach each symbol individually or if you send me a private message with an email address I will send you two zip files containing the symbols. Attached are two AN3 files, AN3-3 and AN3-60. This is the shortest and longest AN3 Bolts.
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cutsrock  
#6 Posted : Wednesday, February 15, 2012 8:33:03 PM(UTC)
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Pathmender, As Filip said there is a tut on the blog. I used a pdf tutorial that I downloaded from here
http://forum.punchcad.com/showthread.php?t=914
check post #7 for the attachment. The post was by "wdp67"
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nick  
#7 Posted : Thursday, February 16, 2012 1:29:32 AM(UTC)
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Hello All

Not sure if you're aware but there is a US hardware supplier McMaster-Carr which have downloadable 3D models of all sorts of hardware including fasteners, bearings, sprockets, etc, etc. Not all components are available as CAD models but a large proportion are. Best format to use is ACIS .SAT as these will open directly in ViaCAD or Shark. I have enclosed a quick screen grab of fasteners section from their website - http://www.mcmaster.com

All the best
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Jean-Francois Jacques  
#8 Posted : Friday, February 17, 2012 8:32:41 AM(UTC)
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cutsrock  
#9 Posted : Friday, February 17, 2012 9:12:29 PM(UTC)
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I also use McMaster-Carr and have been aware of their support for a long time. Since I wanted my BOM for the Ultralight to reflect aircraft bolts and hardware, and not structural hardware I decided to model mil-spec hardware and AN aircraft bolts. I also realize I could import the McMaster file and save it as a mil-spec symbol, but that would defeat the purpose of having an accurate representation of my project.
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Filip  
#10 Posted : Saturday, February 18, 2012 4:45:06 PM(UTC)
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Thanks cutsrock for your bolts.

And hey great, I did not know about mcmaster - this is great will be usfull :)
Thanks nick for link to theri web-site
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Pathmender  
#11 Posted : Thursday, February 23, 2012 7:00:42 PM(UTC)
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Originally Posted by: cutsrock Go to Quoted Post
Pathmender, As Filip said there is a tut on the blog. I used a pdf tutorial that I downloaded from here
http://forum.punchcad.com/showthread.php?t=914
check post #7 for the attachment. The post was by "wdp67"


thank you . I'll look into it.
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