I have been using Alibre for some time and enjoying learning how to produce items I can call useful, i.e. either for someone else or for around the home.
Now, with their newly updated release versioning, I can produce ISO and ANSI style nuts and bolts. I had to learn how to achieve this threaded components production earlier without the real tools but now I am thankful for both outcomes.
Anyway, I have been using a 3D Printer to handle printing random things and now I can produce M20 bolts and nuts when needed and to specification. See here:
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The video is of a K1C from Creality. It gave me trouble at first and then I configured things correctly to make it print magical parts. First off, thank you Creality for producing a fast printing machine that can handle ABS and ASA and so on...
Now, to Alibre personnel, thank you once more for producing the new versioning.
Okay. So, why are ANSI and ISO specs so important. They are basics on building parts, threaded components (and other types of fasteners in the field), that one can use to fasten things. For now, think of a glue with a specified thickness and additive percentages.
So, like with most bolts and nuts, the spec dictates what exactly is an okay size across flats and in depth. So with the bolt, the M20, our flat of the hex head should be about 30mm while the depth of the hex head is maximum and roughly at times 12.85mm.
Metric bolts come in all sorts of sizes and configurations. So, some that have a Pitch of 1.75mm, that is TPI in standard terms, may also have another type of Pitch. Pitches range and so does the size of the hex head on specified bolts.
Some types of hex heads have flanges and/or small, underneath the hex head type washers that are a part of the entire bolt.
If you can think of ways to produce bolts and nuts, trust me, someone beat you to it already. Thus, science. Only so many configurations can be made for safety, hence the spec, while ensuring a fastened, full component.
Anyway, the short video is a showing of a M20 bolt and M20 nut that fit together well and all done with some CAD software called Alibre Atom3D. Upper tiers are available from their company and they have super powers. I am an Atom3D user for now and cannot conceive how Boolean operations work like with the Pro or Expert tier.
Anyway, here is the finished ISO M20 Bolt and Nut:
and an easier to see before photo:
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