topic Need Help designing a Flat Screw in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Need Help designing a Flat Screw

nicolas-regel — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:34:56 GMT

im trying to reversengineer this flat screw with a flat coil. But the flat coil cant be press pulled in the z direktion so the screws Z dosent go throu the cylinder all the way.

Exampels in pictures

Re: Need Help designing a Flat Screw

etfrench — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 19:13:50 GMT

Try this:

Another option would be to use the loft command.

Create sketches for both end profiles (center will be higher).

Create a coil with square or triangular section.

Loft the two end profiles using one edge of the coil as a rail.

Re: Need Help designing a Flat Screw

nicolas-regel — Wed, 23 Jan 2019 21:23:06 GMT

thank you for reminding me of the split body function, i used it together with the coild function to create this test piece