SketchUp Skill Builder: Modeling a Screw, Part 1
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- Behold! The humble threaded rod! So simple yet intricate in it's design. Modeling such geometry has long been thought to be a nearly impossible task for the average SketchUp user. Join us as we pull back the veil of mystery and show you how you can create threads armed with nothing more than the basic SketchUp tools available in Sketchup Shop!
I tryed this exercise about a year ago and couldnt follow it. I kept practicing and went back and tryed the modeling again and this time it got done!!!👍👍
Thanks Aaron again for this tutorial. Exactly what I was looking for. Everything described clearly and concisely!
This is great video -- I've watched many, but this is the only one I know that shows the power of merging exploded geometry. But I find the threads made using this method to be unrealistically sharp. To get a bit of a small flat surface at those sharp edges, I used 4 spirals at 90 degrees apart instead of the 2 spirals 180 degrees shown in the video. This meant selecting 2 adjacent spirals at once in the final scaling steps. The same technique can be applied to make female threads, although I found it tricky. Once again, the key was making grouped geometry and then exploding it to merge with other geometry. Much thanks for showing how to do this so clearly.
As always... great. Very comprehensible, within the right speed, focused on how it is done, without any overload. Thank you.
That was an excellent tutorial. I like to try and understand "things" as much as possible, so avoided using any plugins for a screw thread. I needed to model a wood screw, and about two-days after watching this, and trying different methods, I managed to utilise the principles you show here. If your screw can be thought of as a thread profile of "peak, trough … peak, trough …", I needed to create a "peak, trough, plateau … peak, trough, plateau …" - so I created a single thread (with no reversed copy, as per your instructions), then slightly nudged up a copy, exploded. Slightly nudged down a copy, exploded. Returned to original spiral, exploded and scaled "out" instead, to create a narrow thread, with a plateau between. Totally new to SketchUp, but loving it, and these tutorials. Thanks.
Wonderful job. Thanks for the education, very helpful
Thanks for this great tutorial. I had a couple of problems, but solved them. First, I was not selecting the angle line to move it, I kept going back to your video and it finally clicked. This was my first time moving and an object and making an array with the Rotate tool. No different than the Move tool really. My second problem, I simply worked around. I did everything as you instructed including not clicks after exploding the the final spiral, but when using the scale tool (with the Ctrl key) and pushing on the red center boxes, for some reason it was only affecting the push side. I pushed first along the red axis and then the green, but only the sides I pushed deformed. I tried it several times from the start using undo then Exploding the groups again. Finally I worked it differently by pushing from all sides .90. That gave me good results. Not sure what I was doing wrong the way you demonstrated.
OK, that's a technique I never saw before. Very nice.
This is a great tutorial. Took me a few tries to get all the details right. At the end, I couldn't get it to look right without scaling all four sides inwards, even though I had option pressed. Not sure what I was missing in that step.
Thanks for your videos. Your so good with explaining everything. I’ve really advanced in SketchUp with your help.
Great ! So grateful that you made this the simplest possible way !
That's the goal! Keep it so simple that even Aaron can do it!
Thank you ! I am happy to watch your channel
Nice!
I was having a little trouble rotating the first line originally (I couldn't get the first click of the rotate tool to 'stick' at the origin), then I realized that I needed to have the angled line selected before I activated the rotate tool. Silly me.
Hopefully this helps someone else who also is getting stuck at that point.
Thanks for the feedback! Love to hear tips from people following along!
you just saved me losing my mind, thank you so much
This video really should get a triple score for every thumbs up. Excellent video on a very useful topic.
SU is working very nicely for what I need to do.
Thanks!
When executing the last “scaling” command, it is convenient to grab a point on the edge of the selection and compress diagonally, specifying the compression scale with two values 0.7, 0.7 at the same time.
It is not, as that will also rescale the selection vertically.
@@SketchUp I did not mean the diagonal points of the entire group, but the points located in the middle of the edges of the selection. I was able to narrow the selection in two directions simultaneously by entering values 0.7, 0.7
Made trapezoidal thread on screw by the same way!! Thank you for directions “how to”!!!
EvGeny Awesome! I love hearing when someone takes it to the next level!
Nunca um desenho foi tão bem explicado a ponto de ser compreendido de forma rápida e fácil. Excelente tutorial de algo quase inimaginável de se fazer sem um plugin.,..
This is so much simpler than I anticipated. Thank you!
I keep seeing Fusion 360 getting recommended for modeling, but Sketchup is so easy to use.
Excellent Skill
Great simple explanation! Thank you
Thanks for sharing. Very ingenious. If you create 4 spirals at 90 degrees you will have the ACME thread.
I did not know that! Something I will have to give a try, just for fun. Thanks!
Excellent 👌
Very clever !!
Best video i've seen on this yet! Thanks
Glad you liked it!
Really enjoyed watching you, so little things can make a difference!
Probably the best video I've seen yet on how to make a thread. Still it does not produce a 100% correct thread (the inner part of the thread is not in alignment with the outer part of the thread).
You could do that by not making a 180 degree duplicate of the spiral and use the 'Follow Me' tool instead like demonstrated in the Bolt-and-Nut video, which uses the DrawHelix14 extension.
Nevertheless, this video is a great video and simplifies things a lot. I could successfully make a wood-screw in SketchUp 8.
Thanks Arron great content really enjoyed working along with it.
Wooooow...!!!!!
Interesting set of commands for threads.
Love you guys so much
We talked and agree that we love you, too, Beau!
@@AaronMakingStuff Aaahhh thank you!
Great video and you made it really easy to follow. Pretty sure that I'll get it right now.
Excellent presentation, helps a lot!
This a great, and looks like doable thanks I will try this.
This is gold! Thanks!
Thank you so much for this highly professional and totally much needed video.
Hi Aaron, your videos are great, I’m working my way through them and vastly improving my sketchup skills, I am however having an issue when trying to follow this tutorial, after exploding the cylinder then the 2 spirals, the cylinder doesn’t reshape with the scaling of the spiral, I end up with a spiral on the inside of the cylinder. I would really appreciate a pointer on where I could be going wrong.
Awesome video, Aaron!!! Looking forward to part 2. :)
Excellent. Thanks
We can be thankful to Kito Raupp for finding these genius techniques.
Show de bola me ajudou muito, parabéns fico agradecido
That is so cool!
Decided to Re-create this style in blender since it seems very Costumisable.
wasn't successful to get the Cylinder in place. but was Succefull to get a Screw so Certified Success!.
by Cylinder i mean wasn't succefull to close the hole ;-; from both ends so its left wide open not good for 3D printing but very good for other stuff (doesn't mean i can't cheese it with other stuff like a Extremly pointy end. but that's that guess i still need to understand more :P
and yes i know i could use Blender tutorials and get a answer fast but this is much more Funner.
Love this channel!
And we love our subscribers!
'mazing thank you so super much
That's really cool. Thanks for the video! I will try my best to re-create that!
Around 7:45 when you were scaling about the center, you had some trouble using the mouse to get it exactly to .7, so you opted to enter that factor directly in with the keyboard. I was not able to enter the scale factor while scaling about the center. If typed, I had to apply that factor on all 4 sides. Is there a chance that you had the same issue? I can't tell by watching because the difference would only be a 1% difference on one far side.
That's fantastic !
One thing that might be helpful, as well, is a tutorial on how to make a spring, like a slinky, or railroad truck suspension.
you r great . this is very helpful and inspiring thank you
Super, without extensions,
Hello. I am attempting to follow along, but I seem to be missing something. I'll try to explain the issue. I have made it to the part where we have the repeated spiral and have used a rotate copy to make two of them. We then have to take our original circle plane and push/pull it to create the actual rod of the thread. However, because we made it a group at the beginning, SketchUp is not allowing me to push/pull. I have tried exploding it, then doing the push/pull, and I get a result that looks right, but when I then try to scale the spirals, the shape of the spiral itself changes scale, but it does not move any of the extruded circle, so I end up with a perfect cylinder, and spirals stretching around it. I hope that makes sense. Any clarification or advice would be greatly appreciated. I've tried 6 or 7 times now and keep getting the same result.
To be clear, when I get to the part where you say to explode the extruded circle, I am unable to, as I had to explode it to push/pull to begin with.
Thank you for the help. I am new to this software but finding it very interesting and fun to use. Working on making a replacement part for a watercraft now.
Excellent video. Does this work on 2017 maker?
SUPERB - Thank you!!
Outstanding!
How would you do an ACME thread or a thread that's trapezoidal instead of triangular?
Nice
Thanks, great video!
what! wow it's like magic
I like it. Great ###
If I want to model a spiral ramp this isn't working because sketchup twists the ramp into a diagonal shape for some reason. Because a line, that has been rotatated, which isn't actually shown, because duh, it's a 1D line, also rotates the shape which gets follow-lined along the line.
Seems like this is only possible with plugins then
Awesome. Thanks!
thank you soooooooo much :)
No problem 😊
just so smart :-)) thanks!
Amazing! Thanks.
This is awsome! Although i kind of expected to see "follow" tool used along the spiral.
Unfortunately, no, as Follow Me attempts to follow the curve, it will twist as it goes around. This CAN be overcome with the right extensions (like Upright Extrude), but the goal here was to model the whole thing using only native commands.
Nice was not consdring it at all. But was a good leson
beautiful!
thanks alot! very helpful.
How would you go about doing a thread on a bottle ?
I want to create a round cage with chicken wire and a cone-shaped roof.
hi thank you for the great video. One issue I had was when I did the pull of the circle up like you did at 6:00, I couldn't see the helix lines once i pull up the circle. I could just see bits and pieces of those line not the full helix like you show. I decided to keep going and tried to explode all three pieces, but when I tried to scale, it was deformed, it looks like it scaled along the y axis maybe instead of x axis. Your help will be much appreciated
Fantastic, thanks!
I made my own threaded rod and this was the best video instruction I could find.
how did you make the thread to specific size and pitch you wanted
Nice!
when I copy the initial line with x23 it only goes about 2/3 around the circle, not sure how to dictate how many segments make up the circle. When I get to next step to move them up they of course do not line up. I believe it is an error from the first copy which might be related to original circle geometry. I am in sketchup pro.
These are the sorts of things that are perfect for you to bring to our forum (forums.sketchup.com). Trouble-shooting in the TH-cam comments is a struggle, at best!
When I get to the explode part and explode the first spiral group it would not merge with the rest of the exploded geometry. When I explode the second spiral group and start scaling it is not affecting the rest of the rod as well. Do you know how to fix this?
No, thank you!
Great job!
Hi Aaron, In the videos you always describe 'x23' or 'x9' to repeat a move.
But the order of writing is exactly the other way around in my situation.... '23x' or '9x'. Has the order been changed? Or because I use mm instead of inch?
great! thank you.
Tried to do this 3-4 times and followed the instructions to the T ...didn't work , have the same issue as Sam Chaney ( top and bottom ).
Now , when I try to "intersect " the cone to the screw , it tells me there's nothing to intersect........anything I'm doing wrong ?
( just a comment .....you show the scaling of the lines inwards only on 2 grips ,should be four "grips" .....correct ?
Make sure that the screw and the cone are in the same context when you try to intersect (neither can be in separate groups).
Genius!
At 6:38 when you explode 1 of the spirals then you select then other and say "see how that merged into the geometry"....mine isn't merging into the geometry. When I select the 2nd spiral to scale in, it doesn't draw the thread inward.
I've tried it so many times, copying exactly what you do
Hello there. Thanks for the tutorial. I was following it very well, but when it comes to exploding the spiral lines ( min 6:36) the result is that some faces of the model will be deleted. Thus when I do it for the two spirals, it won't give me a solid. What may be going wrong?
Try scaling your entire model up 10x and explode again
@@SketchUp Many thanks!!! It did work after scaling up!!!
@@SketchUp, technique worked for me as well. Thanks muchly, Ah'm berry, berry grapeful!
Thanjs for sharing. Without this vid, I wouldn't be able to figure out the way this spiral shape is done!
BTW, why you did remove Josh figure in the beginning?!! Wait!! I think I knew, you were afraid he is gonna be screwed up if he was there :)
madwani Thank you for this!
Thank you for the share. But I still have a question, when I explored the first "spring" structure, I didn't see the merge happened. Does anyone have any idea about this situation?
I noticed the same problem, what I think happens is that the spiral instead of becoming part of the cilinder is becoming separated. I even did it manually each part of the spiral but it doesn't work when I try to scale it afterwards
so I just figured in my case, when I created the spiral, I made it a group afterwards, instead of editing the original part of the spiral that was already a group and continue to add on it, which led to the error I was having, when using explode, it was just making my original spiral into the groups I made it, instead of merging into the cilinder.
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Maybe when you finish part 2, you could do one using an extension>
Possibly! I will take a look at what is out there and see if we should make an Extension Inspection video for any of them. Thanks!
Interesting!
& thanks for your hint at 5:28 about retyping any command [ouch! after so many years of sketchuping ;-)) ]
I still have those moments, too! Keep telling myself that one day they won't happen...but...
I am unable to "triple click" on a line to get a complete spiral line isolated.
The circle at the bottom, you need to make it, its own group.
Super Video ! Give here a Komponent , and how can i Download
I'm making a template for some custom computer brackets. Came here looking to learn how to do things precisely and rigorously. 3.5" hard drives take 6/32 UNC-28 screws and homie's over here, "I'ma make a circle with 24 sides, add some lines, and squish it later." Either these are the wrong tutorials, or I'm using the wrong software.
Hi Adam! Sketchup can absolutely be used to model precise dimensions. In these videos, I am limited to presenting a skill in less than 10 minutes. Often times that means trading precision for showing the general steps. Any time that a move or scale tool is moved, you can simply type the exact dimension. Alternatively, you can model then use the scale tool to specify an exact dimension.
I’m at the part where we’re exploding things and they arn’t exploding correctly
I select the rod and explode it, and that seems to work (it matches how the video works)
but when I select one spiral (doesn’t seem to matter which) and explode that, nothing happens. It’s still just as black (not faded), but now when I click on it it only selects one 360 degree section of the spiral. I’ve tried undoing and redoing, and even deleted that workspace and started a new one, but I keep getting the same results. It doesn’t explode like the video shows ):
What am I doing wrong?
did you ever resolve that? Im having the same issue
can you save this object from free sketchup web as an independent file and bring it into keyshot
when I explode my helix, after that the tube surface is gone, can you help why ? its look like helix can not merge with the tube surface
I've encountered the same issue-seems that the helices do not join the circle. I've tried to fill in the missing join but no joy. (I'm using 2017 Make.)
thanx
How can I make this into standard thread sizes? I often use 1/4-20 and 3/8-16 nuts and bolts.
Once the model is complete and in a group, you can open the group and use the tape measure tool to scale any portion of the model to an exact size.
Woah!
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