It's my pleasure!! Happy to help, let me know if there's any specific topic you would like to see videos of, as you can see this channel has just started, so any input is welcome!
I've been trying to design one manually for ages now and it's been hell. Obviously good to learn, but this plugin makes it 10 times easier. Many thanks!
There was a newer or different Version which allowed to change the bold in the object buttons. THis was much more comfortable and also did take a scene scale into account. I wonder why the old one was ported?
I just learned that this was a fork of the original which had some more improvements and error corrections. To bad they ported the original. But maye the oroginal dev was not active anymore.
@@DanielOakfield one more doubt I had. The bolt is hollow from inside. I want to do union of it with a cylinder. But I am unable to do so. Can you please suggest what should I do?
Thank you for this video. How do I make a nut to fit the bolt. I tried using the nut feature in Bolt factory. I used the same customised measurements I used for the bolt. When I print it though the nut is too small. Should I be doing something different?
Firstly, are you applying the scale after you edit your meshes? Secondly, for 3D printing is suggested not to print the thread, usually you print a smaller bore and with a threaded bolt you carve the nut, this is because of the lack of precision working with plastic materials, but if you want to do it, I suggest going a 5% larger for any connecting part, again because the results may vary. Unless you are printing with a different material or going for mould injection or laser printing... tell me more detail about it :)
@@DanielOakfield Thank you for getting back to me. I tried scaling both before and after editing the meshes. I'll try changing the connector measurements. If this does not work then I will have to use another printing method. Thanks.
@@DanielOakfield I tried two methods and they both worked. The first one was to increase by 5% and create the connector. Second Method - I enlarged the bolt by 5% and used the bool tool and made a hole through a cube. The second method worked better. I'm not sure if it is my printer but for my project, I'll stay with the 5% increase and bool tool. Thank you for your help.
@@DanielOakfield The values don't make sense in real.. M3 is not M3... You can check it also in blender when you turn on endge length.. So this add-on is kind of......
Do you see the options and are greyed out? Or can you post a link to a screengrab of the parameter window? It supposed to be in the bottom left corner of the view..!?
UPDATE: it allows to make half threaded bolts, shank length wrong: that plugin does not allow to create space w/o threads in cases when only part of the bolt is threaded
You just saved my life. My heart is full of joy thanks to you.
It's my pleasure!! Happy to help, let me know if there's any specific topic you would like to see videos of, as you can see this channel has just started, so any input is welcome!
Best innovation for easier making bolts in 3D and decrease headache than making it manually.. Thank you !
You are very welcome 🙏🏻
I've been trying to design one manually for ages now and it's been hell. Obviously good to learn, but this plugin makes it 10 times easier. Many thanks!
This video tutorial is seriously under appreciated!
Very kind of you :) hope it helped
this was very useful, thank you very much
You are welcome:)
What an incredible tutorial!
Thank you for watching :)
thank you, very helpful.
Thank you for watching :)
legend, thank you and Aaron Kieth!
just subbed
Thanks a lot Sean :)
A lot of good tips that I have been searching for in this video. Thank you!
Thank you!!!
That was awesome. You the man!
Glad it helped :)
Dude! Thanks for making this video. Extremely helpful. Subscribed!
Thank you very much :))
There was a newer or different Version which allowed to change the bold in the object buttons. THis was much more comfortable and also did take a scene scale into account. I wonder why the old one was ported?
I believe probably it's not compatible with 2.8? Will post an update in case anything new happens! Thanks for the heads up!
I just learned that this was a fork of the original which had some more improvements and error corrections. To bad they ported the original. But maye the oroginal dev was not active anymore.
@@blenderbuch it makes sense... but let's see with the next update!
Thanks a lot for this video.
You are most welcome Chaitanya!
@@DanielOakfield one more doubt I had. The bolt is hollow from inside. I want to do union of it with a cylinder. But I am unable to do so. Can you please suggest what should I do?
Do you mean you want just to have it filled?
Thank you for this video. How do I make a nut to fit the bolt. I tried using the nut feature in Bolt factory. I used the same customised measurements I used for the bolt. When I print it though the nut is too small. Should I be doing something different?
Firstly, are you applying the scale after you edit your meshes?
Secondly, for 3D printing is suggested not to print the thread, usually you print a smaller bore and with a threaded bolt you carve the nut, this is because of the lack of precision working with plastic materials, but if you want to do it, I suggest going a 5% larger for any connecting part, again because the results may vary. Unless you are printing with a different material or going for mould injection or laser printing... tell me more detail about it :)
@@DanielOakfield Thank you for getting back to me. I tried scaling both before and after editing the meshes. I'll try changing the connector measurements. If this does not work then I will have to use another printing method. Thanks.
@@aysiful Let me know how does it go!
@@DanielOakfield I tried two methods and they both worked. The first one was to increase by 5% and create the connector. Second Method - I enlarged the bolt by 5% and used the bool tool and made a hole through a cube. The second method worked better. I'm not sure if it is my printer but for my project, I'll stay with the 5% increase and bool tool. Thank you for your help.
I am glad to know you solved, I wish for an ideal world where 3D printers are precise and no workaround is needed!!! :D
Thank you.
No worries!
you made my day
I hope you subscribe in return haha :) thank you 🙏🏻
Thank you for sharing, save me a lot of time :)
You are very welcome Xuan! If you any request for future tutorials let me know! :)
Thanks
You are welcome
Great video brother subscribed !
Thank you!!!
seems useful
It is! :)
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Haha I wish I was as famous as him! Wrong person Milo!
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mine does not show the add bolt property window like yours.
are you talking at the settings on the bottom left side of the window?
this tool seems to struggle when the units are set to millimeters instead of meters. Or maybe it is beta problems with 2.8. Or maybe it's just me.
What kind of bug did you find exactly? What’s happened when the unit is set to mm?
@@DanielOakfield The values don't make sense in real.. M3 is not M3... You can check it also in blender when you turn on endge length.. So this add-on is kind of......
Excellent! But I have the doubnt How to make a "turn left" nut :O
Maybe mirroring the nut...
Yep :D
@@DanielOakfield Yes! I made three nuts with your tip, mirroring it and it works!
Glad it worked :)
I wish there were slot drive heads :D
True, didn’t check the new version maybe? It’s easy to modify the cross heads anyway!
How to install screw settings and adjustment without making a new one
What do you mean with “making a new one”?
@@DanielOakfield Restore the add list every time
I add a bolt but no parameters window opens so I can't change anything but the scale of the bolt!
Do you see the options and are greyed out?
Or can you post a link to a screengrab of the parameter window? It supposed to be in the bottom left corner of the view..!?
@@DanielOakfield Restarted 2.8 for the 2nd time and it's now there, thanks Daniel!!!
You could also right click on the unit and select "Change Bolt"
I got the Bolt Factory addon activated in Blender 2.80.75, but it doesn't show the Bolt option, to add mesh ! Anybody knows why ??
Hi Bruno, just tried again and it worked fine... it's a coil icon in the add mesh menu, did you try with operator search and typing bolt?
UPDATE: it allows to make half threaded bolts, shank length
wrong: that plugin does not allow to create space w/o threads in cases when only part of the bolt is threaded
This is a very specific thing, pretty sure you can drag a few vertices and create the space you need!
@@DanielOakfield well yes, I can find some workarounds, but still it takes some time
@@DanielOakfield actually there's Shank length option, missed it, so there's a way )
@@iddeegee Great to hear, I admit I didn't know what shank length exactly was :D My bad!
it is not in real size, right proportion.
Yes, you are right! Thanks for the comment! :)
Do you do collabs?
Hi Paul! What do you have in mind?
@@DanielOakfield promoting a product of mine for crowdfunding, more like promoting the campaign
Send me an email! Or get in touch via DM on Reddit and tell me more
The scale does not match the scale of my model. It's basically a useless plugin.
Have you tried checking the units? Or simply scale?