Threads for 3D Printing in Alibre Atom3D and Design Professional

I originally clicked on this in my living room, but almost immediately realized that I should move to my office and follow along. Here I go: (I'm gonna edit as I go) 00:58 I realize I'm gonna follow along. 03:57 There are some interesting differences I'm noticing, like all your dimensions are labeled. That seems really useful! 09:30 Starting to wish I had Expert so this whole thing could be so much easier using your boolean method. 11:00 And this is why parametric CAD is the most powerful software in the world. 12:50 OH! I see what you're doing. Still not as easy as your boolean method, but this is very cool! 13:10 For me, I cannot change this dimension. Deleting the dimension you deleted still leaves the right side constrained, and I've only added dimensions and constraints where you did. I'm very confused now. AH! About 1 minute later I realized what was happening. I tried to do this without switching to the M10 like you did. For some reason, staying with the M6 and trying to fix that problem didn't work. I'm not entirely sure why, maybe it's because a point ends up vertical to the origin, and it was adding some kind of constraint? Not sure. That'll do it for me since I'm on Atom. Very good tutorial, thanks!

You need more credit, great video series. Very helpful and very much appreciated.

Great video. It really shows how to achieve the same result with the different workflows required for the different levels of Alibre. Keep them coming.

Liked the spacebar tip. I didn't know it either. Great job as always. Keep it up! Coincidentally, I had to print a simple M22*1 nut today at work. I used the same technique you're introducing in the video.

Thanks for the tutorial, I have been using Alibre Expert for many years at home for making models of steam engines and other useful bits. One thing I have learnt is when creating a new part from an existing part is to do the "Save As" operating before making any changes as I inevitably make the changes and them hit save with out thinking. It saves a lot of pain. Thanks again.

I am glad I have found your channel. I am learning Alibre after moving from Fusion 360. I found most of it self-explanatory, however, I really really do miss the Fusion 360 modeled threads. It is not perfect and it is missing some thread pitches which you may want, but it saves a bunch of work for most people who do CAD for 3D printing. I still will stick with Alibre because it's licensing terms are far better than fusion and it is very intuitive. I'm surprised it's not more famous in the 3D printing community.

I have Pro, so I really appreciate the video. I regularly use Alibre for 3D printing and designing the threaded parts was always laborious - I will be using this method in future.

Very excellent, thank you.

It would be nice if they could just include this library feature for all levels... Manually having to do threads (vs free software like fusion 360 that comes with threading tools) is already a bit of a hassle 😅

thanks a lot