How to create a nut with curvature on the top or bottom

BDNS Murthy

6 Jun, 2013 02:56 PM

You can easily use the feature of body to create the nut with the fillet as the above figure

1. Step 1:

   First of all create a hexagon and a circle in the sketch on XY plane & Pad it to look like this.

   

2. Step 2:

   After that go to INSERT -> BODY.

   

3. Step 3:

   Now sketch a circumscribed circle for the hexagon on the XY Plane

   

4. Step 4:

   Pad the circle to become a cylinder for the same pad length as the hexagon

   

5. Step 5:

   Now create a fillet on the cylinder for the required dimension like below.

   

6. Step 6:

   Go to INSERT -> BOOLEAN OPERATORS -> INTERSECT as shown in figure

   

7. Step 7:

   Select the cylinder first, then after select the paded hexagon, & then click ok to look like this.

   

8. Step 8:

   Your required Hexagon nut looks like this. See here.