Hi Joe, usually the next step after building the thread is to do a boolean.

See here for some previous examples:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=767.2
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=490.36

Also a longer video here:
http://vimeo.com/30765016

Discussion thread for that video is here:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=4623.1

- Michael