Modeling a Bottle
Wed, Apr 23, 2008
In today’s video we draw a blow-molded style plastic bottle. We use a revolve to create the body of the bottle and shell it hollow. A thread is then swept along a helical path and finished with attractive filleting. A few other tricks and tips are explored along the way.
Download SolidWorks Part: Bottle.SLDPRT
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August 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm
Dear Tim,
Once again I’ve enjoyed this fine tutorial. I was wondering: in some bottlecaps you see a thread broken down in smaller “lanes”. What is the best way to construct such a thing?
Good luck on your site, outstanding quality of tutorials! I’ve bookmarked it.
Bram
October 22nd, 2008 at 8:50 am
I am fairly new at Solidworks, and I was just wondering, how to put threads onto a stud. I would appreciate any help on this in a step by step method.
Thanks
Con
October 28th, 2008 at 6:22 pm
Bram,
I believe I know what you are describing. Could modeling a small segment of tread with lead-in and out (perhaps just an 1/8th of a revolution) and then replicating this bump around the neck with a curve driven pattern along a helix produce the effect you are looking for?
October 28th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
Con,
In the near future I will be producing a video on Cosmetic Threads that I think will be of interest to you. Stay tuned.
November 20th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
You’re tutorials are excellent! I find something new in them every time I watch them.
Great Job, keep up the wonderful work!
Karl
December 11th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Hi,
Can you tell me how to make a tread around a globoidal shape(hourglass shape)? Thanks,
Mira
January 14th, 2009 at 10:16 pm
Great Tut! Thanks for posting it.
March 4th, 2009 at 9:22 am
how to download this video??
thx
March 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Great job!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:41 am
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE YOUR INSTRUCTION! Easy to understand and follow…Thanks a million. I do have a question: I am trying to learn surfacing…doing projects like Ultra Downy & Tide bottles…Where the varying surfaces change. Do you have any examples or would you please be able to give me some help?
Thanks again,
–L
July 21st, 2009 at 10:21 am
Gracias por la copia
August 24th, 2009 at 9:56 am
Its too easy to obsererve. Then i need hot to animate
September 17th, 2009 at 7:49 pm
Great instruction. There’s a lot to learn from your tutorials. Please keep up the good job.
September 21st, 2009 at 4:05 am
Thanks Tim
October 28th, 2009 at 7:48 pm
Really impressive tutorials, thanks. As a software engineer getting into mechanical design as a hobby, I especially appreciate your focus on “design best practice,” e.g. your discussion of the different ways to keep the threads from intruding into the inside of the bottle. Keep up the great work!
November 27th, 2009 at 4:45 am
Great tutorials, working through them slowly and I have enjoyed them all so far.
Cheers
Steve
February 12th, 2010 at 3:28 pm
Great Job. Thanks a LOT!
June 24th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Hey,
This tutorial is exactly what I was looking for to model some threaded rod. I have a question though, when I try to make the sweep, there is no ghost preview and the operation “cannot be completed.”
I checked the profile with a revolve and that worked just fine. I tried remaking the helix both inside the rod and outside but it just didn’t work. Do you know what might help?
Thanks so much!
-Natty
February 8th, 2011 at 11:26 am
Hello, i am a student at the techmology center of dupage in the chicago area, i have learned autocad (2d and 3d) revit and inventor, but my favorit program is solidworks, the only thing i cant teach myself is how to make a mold. the tutorial for it that solidworks gives you, its hard to find some comands or comands in the property manager, i was really hopeing you know how to make a mold and could make a tutorial video for me?
Thanks
- Jeremy
February 21st, 2011 at 6:18 am
This is a fantastic tutorial, the helix options to get the varying dia is awesome, Have watched 3 of your vids now and each one is so well presented.
Bookmarked and will return again and again !!
Thank you.
Trev
March 19th, 2011 at 9:06 pm
Tim,
This is a terrific tutorial! Thanks for the informative tips about double dimensioning and regarding diameters in threading.
April 23rd, 2011 at 7:15 pm
Realy good job keep it up, helped out nicely. If you can you should go through the living hinge command
August 18th, 2011 at 6:48 am
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL.
GOT MYSELF STUCK FOR A WHILE WHEN I MOVED THE THREAD SKETCH TO THE END OF THE HELIX INSTEAD OF ALONG IT’S LINE.
August 27th, 2011 at 6:32 am
u cheated with the dome in the bottom,i was expecting a traditional PET bottom,the reason why i was searching for the tutorial in the first place,any hint on how i do that?