{"id":1410,"date":"2012-05-29T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T00:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/NX-Hints-and-Tips-Creating-Helical-Shapes\/ba-p\/334898"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:08:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:08:04","slug":"nx-hints-and-tips-creating-helical-shapes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/nx-hints-and-tips-creating-helical-shapes\/","title":{"rendered":"NX Hints and Tips \u2013 Creating Helical Shapes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted an NX tutorial video. Let&#8217;s look at a more advanced topic, using the Helix and Bridge Curve commands<BR \/><BR \/>In this example we will create the thread on an oil filler cap. In General, it&#8217;s not a recommended practice to create thread features on standard fasteners.<BR \/><BR \/><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-10147 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/29\/nx-hints-tips-%e2%80%93-creating-helical-shapes\/oilcap\/\"><\/A>But in this case we need detailed threads to create a mold.However, we&nbsp;cannot use the NX Thread command, because this is not a standard thread.<BR \/><BR \/><IFRAME width=\"425\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/3Uqg9adbMv4\"><\/IFRAME><BR \/><BR \/>Stay tuned, I&#8217;ve got 3 more video&#8217;s coming soon.<BR \/><BR \/>Jerry<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since I posted an NX tutorial video. Let&#8217;s look at a more advanced topic, using the Helix and Bridge Curve commands    In this example we will create the thread on an oil fil&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61891,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61891"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1411,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1410\/revisions\/1411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1410"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}