Thread inserts (metric and imperial)

[Anonymous]

I'm using Inventor 2011 and can't find any thread inserts in 'hole' command. Neither helicoil nor recoil - are they unavailable? Cose that would be a bit poor. Can I ****ch them on somehow? 

Thanks

[blair]

You would need to add the specific thread to the Thread.XLS file to get the thread for the hole. As for the Helicoil insert, you would need to model a specific part and move to the Assembly level and insert the Helicoil at that level. You could create the Helicoil as an iPart if you were going to use a number of different Helicoils in your work, or just model the Helicoil you are going to need.

Back-up (make a copy) of your THREAD.XLS file before you edit it.

[Anonymous]

an Ipart is probably a bit over the top for what I need but a choice in the 'hole' command would be nice. Weird that Audotesk hasn't prepared it as a default - thread inserts are used preety much world wide?

Does anybody have a modified thread.xls that I could "borrow"?  🙂

[blair]

They sort rectangular bar (flat-bar) by width and then thickness in the Content Center. If they can't get that correct after this many years and requests, what chance would insert threads have.

[IgorMir]

That one got me.  Are you saying that 50 x 5 FL is not correct definition of the flat bar 50 mm width, 5 mm thk?

Igor.

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@Anonymous wrote:

They sort rectangular bar (flat-bar) by width and then thickness in the Content Center. If they can't get that correct after this many years and requests, what chance would insert threads have.

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[blair]

All flat-bar is sorted thickness first then width; 5mm x 50mm or 1/4" x 2", just like bolts, you don't sort bolts length first and then diameter.

Unfortunatly the programers at Autodesk sort the rectangular bar in the CC by width first then by thickness.

[IgorMir]

That's a bit categorical statement. Here is a copy of a page from BHP catalogue. Width of the flat bars come first anyway you look at it. Frankly, I have never come across with definition of the FB's with thickness called first. Maybe in the USA it is different, but in Australia it is not.

As for the definition of fasteners - yes, thread size comes first, then the length. But these are two different animals.

Igor.

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@Anonymous wrote:

All flat-bar is sorted thickness first then width; 5mm x 50mm or 1/4" x 2", just like bolts, you don't sort bolts length first and then diameter.

Unfortunatly the programers at Autodesk sort the rectangular bar in the CC by width first then by thickness.

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[blair]

It's a North-American thing, not really sure if there's a written ASNI standard. All steel service centers in N-A publish/sort by thickness first, then width.

[IgorMir]

I see. Thanks for the explanation.

Best Regards,

Igor.

[Anonymous]

Are there any recognised standards nationally or internationally for threaded inserts?

If not then it would be a little hard for them to include content.

If there are standards I would be interested to hear as I could like to add these to my own therad spreadsheet.