Originally Posted by
tdswanson
Hey everyone:
I'm using vanilla Acad 2006. I draw solids, then use SOLPROF to make conventional hidden line prints. How do you represent threads in this manner?
For blind tapped holes, I'll actually draw a pilot hole with a cone point, then a larger cylinder where the threads are and subtract it all. This looks pretty ok and visually makes sense.
However, if a tapped hole is through (say and M6 for example), my print theoretically should have a "continuous" circle shown at 5mm and a hidden circle shown at 6mm.
How to represent this? If I draw a second cylinder and do a union, the material is absorbed and there's no hidden line from SOLPROF. If I draw a second cylinder and just leave it, then I've got an entire additional group of entities to maintain besides the actual object. What do you guys do?