Spooky realistic Steve.
I like the Galvanized material.

Hello SteveMacc,

Great model and render, the material choice is right on.

its a pleasure to watch a great moI tut with audio

wish there were more

thanks

Hello,

A tutorial on knurling is in the works, it should be out shortly.

With you a bolt becomes an true artwork, an admirable objet.

You have the precision of one watchmaker or clockmaker; same if I nearly missed to sleep during your tutorial; a little too technical & too long for a lively mind full of impatience.

Hello,

A knurling tutorial should be up tomorrow. It's shorter than the screw thread tutorial.

Ok a bit late but I wanted to ask this ,

What I don't understand, in the beginning of this tutorial, you tell us to make 20 copies of the 1 inch line.
After some more steps you delete all the copies and never use them. What is the meaning of those 20 copies? :-)



Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Hello Rich_Art,

It was an easy way to determine thread pitch. By using this method you have an easy way to get the pitch right on and will use that to determine the other parts of the geometry. You don't have to spend your time figuring out or inputting to many values, you just need to know how many threads per inch / mm you want to model. Hope that makes sense, I'm not so good at explaining things.

Ah ok.. Thanks for the clarification...

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)

Hello Rich_Art,

By the way if you are using metric sizes the pitch is easy to determine since the second number should be the pitch. If this is the case you don't need to go through that first process, just use that number to start your pitch triangle.

Thank for the tip... :-) I hope I'll remember it when I'm making a new screw or bold.

Peace,
Rich_Art. ;-)