CustomScrews

Fusion 360 App which creates custom screws by different parameters.

Installation

• Download the project as zip file and extract it to C:\Users\YOURNAME\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk Fusion 360\API\AddIns
• (Instead of downloading the zip, you could also fork this project directly into the given folder)
• Open Fusion 360 and then click on 'Scripts and Add-Ins'
• Go to the Add-In tab and open (green plus) existing projects and select the CustomScrews folder
• Start your new script and I hope you are happy with it.

Requirements

Install the requirements into the ./modules folder.

pip install -r requirements.txt -t ./modules/

Deinstallation

• Stop the Add-In in Fusion 360
• Delete the extracted files in the previous given folder

Parameters

The following technical drawing is showing the changeable parameters of the screw.

Screw Name: Name of the Body
Head Diameter: Diameter of the cylinder head
Body Diameter: Diameter of the body shaft
Head Height: Height of the cylinder head
Body Length: length of the body shaft
Hexagon Diameter: Diameter of the inner Circle of the hexagonal polygon
Hexagon Height: Height to cut the hexagon from the cylinder head
Fillet Radius: Radius of all fillets
Thread Length: length of the thread
Chamfer Distance: distance of the 45degree chamfer on the body shaft

Screenshots

Future Features

• auto-placement of a kind of screws to selectable joint origins
• verification of depending parameters