Somewhat older video uploaded after moving to Makertube. Demonstration of the Helix tool in Solvespace. With the Helix tool a corkscrew a sketch can be extruded along a corkscrew like path. A useful application for this tool is the threaded rod. In this video I'll demonstrate how to design such a threaded rod.

The Solvespace file of a threaded rod can be downloaded here: https://my.hidrive.com/lnk/jXiIiHAw

The background music in this video is a Piano Violin beat created by Nathan Buijs (license CC0)

For this video I used Solvespace v3.0 RC1 on Mac OSX.

Solvespace is open source (GPLv3 license) and is available for Window, OSX and Linux. It is developed by Jonathan Westhues and maintained by Whitequark and others. It can be downloaded here: http://solvespace.com/download.pl