WANTED source of Rhino drawn Imperial Nuts and Bolts

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi,
Does anyone know of a source of Rhino drawn (not meshes, not step or iges, not drawn in solidworks etc, but Rhino drawn, Nuts Bolts to Imperial sizes.

Surely Rhino comes with a library of fasteners ?
The other progs do.

At least if its Rhino drawn there is no corruption likely, no knock on effects causing mayhem further into the project.

I used an online suggested source McMaster or something, and discovered later on it was meshes, the poly count sent my projects into a file save of 1.5Gb and deleting them just saw file size grow, meltdown was entered.

If I need a bolt and nut for 3/8inch, I want one quicko,

I dont want to be told how to draw one.

Perhaps we could have a sticky section on basic useful items at top of forum !

Steve

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https://www.food4rhino.com/en/app/boltgen-manuals-and-help-rhinoceros-windows-and-mac

This plugin should be able to generate what you need, as you need it. It works for me on R8

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No, it doesn’t.
No, “they” don’t. Some do.

Food4rhino.com has several options, including plugins for both Rhino and Grasshopper. I really like Boltgen, mentioned by @michaelkreft. It’s super stable and quick.

-Jakob

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boltgen as mentioned very good

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Go to mcmaster.com find the part you want click on the part, a pop-up description and an oportunity to download a cad version. I pick dxf because rhino has no problem opening it.
Al Pollard

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He did say he’d tried McMaster. I’ve never had any problems importing step files from them for use in my drawings.

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I just remember following the advice in the thread link given, and the file size went off this planet.

Steve