ZW3D Tips on Shaft Design: Flexible and Automatical Thread Ending in ZW3D

As for 3D product designers, they often encounter some shaft parts with thread, especially in mechanical and home appliance industries. Usually, the threads need an ending to meet the actually demand and improve the visual aesthetics. But thread endings are achieved by faces and lines, this process is complicated with unnatural results, while we can easily realize thread ending through the thread function in ZW3D.

Fig. 1 Automatical thread Ending for Shaft Parts in ZW3D

Now, let’s see how ZW3D do this:

step 1: Draw the shaft

Draw the shaft profile according to the sketch below.

Fig. 2 Shaft Profile

step 2: Create the main shaft through revolving the sketch.

Fig. 3 Create One side of the Shaft by Revolve

The visual effect of revolved shaft after chamfered

Fig. 4 Result after Chamfered

step 3: Draw the sketch of thread cross section

Fig. 5 The Thread Cross Sketch

step 4: Create the thread by Thread function

Fig. 6 Create the Thread

In the following picture, you can see the thread ending is reaching the real ending visual effect.

Fig. 7 The Result

step 5: Create the other side by rotate copy, and add the two parts by Boolean operation. Then we get the finial shaft like below.

Fig. 8 The Finial Thread Ending Result

As shown above, we can easily and quickly realize thread ending designing in ZW3D to make the part more realistic.  You can download the file in following link: http://www.zwcad.com/community/thread-17344-1-1.html.

And this thread ending process is not complicated, you can easily finish the ending by mastering the thread function in ZW3D. Meanwhile, ZW3D has powerful modelling and manufacturing function. ZW3D is the key 3D designing tool to raise the efficiency for structure designing and manufacture engineer.

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