Modeling a thread without booleans?

[StylizedCarfan1]

Uh displacement map?

[retro002]

i mean pure poly modeling, no fancy stuff ;-/

[mattonium]

I would probably use a helix primitive, scale it to what you want, delete some of the inside faces and append them with either the bridge or append to polygon tool. If you need a taper, I'd use either a taper deformer, or lattice with just 4 points. Hope that helps.

If you want it to be seamless with another object, scale it so it looks correct. Delete faces from both objects, combine the two objects, then stitch it together.

[newellteapot]

Matt's way is great, but you might want to see this, too.
'Modelling and Rigging a nut and bolt'
by Martin Andersson
It's in 3Dtotal.com in the Maya tutorial section

Hope this helps

[scrawford]

not sure what app your using, but in LW you can build the shape you want the thread to be, and lathe it with an offset to get the thread.

[scrimski]

Yeah, right.
Don't tell anyone which app you are using, could end up in someone helping you.

[phix314]

When I modeled a light bulb a while back I used the helix method, similar shape...

[retro002]

sorry, i did not mention i'm using xsi atm. thanks for the help - i had quick glance at the tutorial too. looks promising i guess i will work through that one.

thanks again.

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