Hi Michael - I am thinking of another one, I played with it a couple of years ago and I am sure it offered a drop down list of different bolt sizes such as M10 M12 M20 etc ... What's bugging me is I can't remember if it generated the full bolt or just the threads. I think i can remember that you had to select if it was internal cut too.

Martin

INCREDIBLE!!! Just what I was looking for. Although make hex rod does not seem to work properly. It has a pull down menu for different nuts and bolts but if a bolt is selected only the bolt head is generated.....??

Hi Martin, sorry I don't remember that one... Maybe the original author or someone else who uses it will know about it.

- Michael

Hello,

I think this is the script you're looking for made by Martin3D. I've never tried it but it looks slick, faster than my manual method.

http://moi3d.com/forum/messages.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5451.1

""""""""What's bugging me is I can't remember if it generated the full bolt or just the threads. I think i can remember that you had to select if it was internal cut too""""""""""

Hey Martin,
it "IS" the script by martin3d.. You are in that thread discussion also....

Both have "pull downs" for some of the sizes martin3d needed... Max smirnov had made an updated version of one, the hex rod...

The makethread script will make a full thread tapered out at the top to a cylinder....

The hex rod script will make the head for a bolt, of some type of dimension, which can be attached to the thread you made. It is also used for "nuts", to then be used in conjunction with the "MakeThreadTap" script, which will make an object to cut out the nut, or cut screw holes on objects....

The one link I posted will have links to the 3....

Thanks BurrMan - I thought i might have been getting confused, getting old now - lol

Martin Spencer-Ford

Hi all,
times goes by and finding all those scripts again on the forum was not as easy as I hoped. Anyway here are the download links to the most recent versions of the thread cutting scripts

External threads
makeExternalThread-Oct-17-2012.zip
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5451.1

Internal threads
makeThreadTap-Oct-19-2012.zip
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5473.1

Hex rods
makeHexRod.zip (improved by Max Smirnov)
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=5489.10

Note that you can customize the scripts by opening the .htm file in a text editor. Instructions can be found in the text.

-Martin

Thanks Martin...most helpful!