I’m working on some scripts useful in tool designing. I’m going to try to sell these on Food4Rhino, maybe 2 or 3 designers would be interested :rofl::rofl::rofl:, but I’ll be happy starting something with this new hobby. I’m not good writing english so short videos would show the behavior of these. …

That’s a pretty quick automated generation of a library with screws. :slight_smile: I usually only work with M5, M6, M8, M10, M12 and M14 screws of various lengths, but it still takes time to make them manually. :slight_smile:

I’m not sure if it will help you but FreeCad has got also a generator for Fasteners/Bolts/Nuts/Washers. So it would be possible to do own library quite fast. I’m not sure if it’s better but it’s free to try and use. It`s also easy to export/import to Rhino. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yuElGPuw…

@mdesign In my case I have to make it this way because what I’m doing is each component with its own properties like name, material to calculate mass, specific layer, making it a block, etc. And each time I make a test I have to update the entire list of files. @Rhino_Bulgaria I’ve seen the files…

[image] geopalacios_88: hat you have 200 bolts in your assembly, if you have these as polysurfaces, megabytes of the file will increase so much, but if these 200 bolts Does your script create all bolts as block instances?

Yes it does. That’s one of the reasons I needed make it by script, it is supposed that in gh could be done , but I have had no much free time :sweat_smile:. I’m doing this and other components to control the behavior when I use with my tools.

Thanks to your script and blocks it is more near to procedural solutions like Solidworks. And I love the idea to push Rhino into that area. Very wise and well done. I hope you will sell it someday as the final product. I`m sure it will be useful in many areas (f.e. to design electronic shells, 3d pr…

Yes, I’d like the idea of doing something to push rhino into mechanical area, for what I’ve been reading here, Rhino staff is working so hard on other areas to be more competitive on its main markets. And I really appreciate that effort. When I’m at job, I work on other softwares, but while doing f…

I’m going to be working on “Barley” (Hole making) adding more ideas, by the moment, I introduce you “Rice” (material and mass). With this tool, is possible to assign materials, I ve just captured the most usable for me, mold and die steel. But with time I will capture more. [Rhino Rice- me…

You may be interested to know that since 10 days there is a new version of the “Peter’s tools” plug-in set that has the capabilities to apply real material properties to objects in Rhino 7, as well as a BOM funtion to export those properties to a spreadsheet program. :slight_smile: [image] P…

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Gijs (Gijs de Zwart) April 15, 2021, 10:36pm 20

BoltGen can also make ones without threads.

I once made this tool while learning python that also allows to directly align the inserted bolt at the position/orientation you need:

saves you from orient3pt manually

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