Multiple thread features in same dialog

[Anonymous]

I import quite often parts in STEP or IGES formats that have thread (either outside or inside). Later I have to do the drawings with Inventor and for this I need to add one by one the thread feature to each hole or bolt (see at the pictures how I have before and I want after).

I would like to apply the thread feature at multiple cilinder / holes at the same time. Why not a dialog similar to the hole dialog? We could choose all features where we want to apply the same thread.

This would suppose a big time saving.

[Anonymous]

You could create a sketch to capture the hole locations, fill them in using Fill Voids or other technique, then recreate the holes using the Hole command.

[Anonymous]

Hi signmeup,

What you wrote is exactly what I do at the moment with the holes:

 - Create a sketch on the face

 - Project the face

 - Remove the holes with direct edit

 - Create tapped holes from the selected points

However:

 - This process is much longer as just choosing the holes to add thread at once (feature requested)

 - Does not work for bolts

 - It is more complicated if multiple size of holes are on the face

 - More complicated for non-flat faces.

 - Complicated if holes of different depth

 - Sometimes needs same time as remodeling the face from skratch.

I would like just to choose different holes / cilinder, choosing the desired thread and then it is done. For me this would be much simpler and I understand that if it can be done sequentially (one after the other Thread feature), then it should not be complicated to implement.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like you want to be able to define a standard like metric coarse and apply it to a bunch of different holes and cylinders. Not something I would use but I can see it would save you time.

[Anonymous]

It is not necessary that it can be applied to cilinders and holes simultaneously.

Only that it could be applied to multiple holes or cilinder at the same time would suppose a big improvement.

What I basically would like is an addition in the thread feature where I could select more than 1 surface.

[Anonymous]

I'm with you there. Selecting the holes individually takes forever.

[Anonymous]

It's the same for me, it would be really helpful if it were possible to select multiple surfaces and apply the same specification of thread to all of them at the same time, rather than selecting each individual surface. When one is working with a whole number of holes, that tends to be a huge drain of time.

[Anonymous]

COUNT ME IN!

I'm going crazy having to apply M2.5 threads to a rail strip. After applying one thread, the window didn't close and I didn't think to check the thread it was applying to the SECOND hole. Yeah, that wasn't the thread I wanted, so I had to REDO all the **** holes.

Additionally, I'm using a rectangle pattern on the hole, but the threads aren't recognized by the pattern feature. It's a huge waste of time to have to do this every time I want to adjust the strip length or create different strips.

 

[Anonymous]

I have no clue why the thread feature does not remember the thread specification and defaults back to ANSI after each thread operation, makes no sense, especially not when you actually keep the dialogue window open. But there you go, that's the way the cookie crumbles.

However. I am not sure how your rail really looks like and such, but there are some cheats you can use.

For one you can create a copy (save copy as) of your rail and just modify dimensions to fit the new rail. That way, you will not have to rethread the holes. The holes are already threaded and if the distance between the holes does no longer fit, you can always either edit the pattern (double click the pattern in the browser window) and alter the number of holes and their spacing. Or, if you think that at some point you might want to revert to the initial spacing and number of holes, you can just open the pattern, look at the elements and suppress the elements that you do not need for that particular part. As far as I remember, suppressed elements in a pattern (or parts in an assembly) are virtually invisible on the part/assembly itself and the only way you can see them is in the browser.

If I am not completely mistaken, the thread is tied to the hole feature it is applied on so, if you move the hole, the thread will follow. And you can move the hole on a sketch (if it is the hole you have patterned - if it is not, then you control the behaviour via the pattern).

You are however inaccurate. Not incorrect, just inaccurate. You are correct in saying that the pattern feature does not recognize the thread feature as patternable. But. You can make one hole, put a thread on it, then select the pattern feature, and select both hole feature as well as the thread feature. Thusly you only apply one thread, then you pattern hole and thread together and you're done.

All of the above is valid for making holes the "wrong way" - as in placing circles on a sketch then cut-extruding them into holes, then creating threads on the inner surface of the holes. The advantage of this is that you can have as many holes as you want and you can have different sizes of the circles and thus of the holes. The disadvantage is that you will have to apply the threading separately.

Another option: instead of holes, make points on the sketch, then use the hole feature, select threaded hole, enter the specifications and the hole command will automatically select all the points as centers for the holes you wish to make. The advantage is that you only select a thread once and then forget about it. Additionally, when you have to pattern a hole made with the hole command, you do not have to worry about the thread, it will be patterned automatically, since both the hole and the thread are seen as one feature - rather than two as is the case of making holes as cut-extrusions. The disadvantage is that, if your part has more than one size of holes (or more than one thread specification) you will need to make a sketch for every type of hole (not every hole, just hole size).

This being said, I still do not see the point of having the thread dialogue behaving the way it does 🙂

Hope this helps.

I've attached a pic you can have a look at - if  you want the part file, let me know and I'll PM it to you, if it's possible 🙂

[Anonymous]

Has inventor taken any of this advise on board and created a fix for it yet ?

Inventor seems to be years behind solidworks, such a shame we are forced to use inventor, wishing we had solidworks.

[Anonymous]

In inventor 2020 help it says you can select multiple faces, but I'm not being able. What am I doing wrong??

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INVNTOR/2020/ENU/?guid=GUID-C0848D58-12CB-4605-8165-0836232927F0

[craig_embry]

I would like to see the Threading feature be upgraded to accepting multiple surfaces as well for existing holes.  (Notice I said Threading feature, not Hole feature that you CAN use multiple surfaces with).  Also, to stop it from defaulting back to a thread I am NOT using or have selected and working with while the dialog box remains open.  Such a simple fix that would save users a lot of time.

Wish AutoDesk would chime in on this one.  This is an old thread....heh.