Tutorial #10: How to create bottle cap

I get this idea from my medicine bottle cap, the tips here show you how you can use extrude up to the face function.

1. Click New , Click Part and OK.

2. Click on Top Plane and click Sketch.

3. Click Circle and sketch start at Origin, click Smart Dimension and dimension the circle as 1.0in diameter.

4. Click Features>Extrude Boss/Base set the D1 to 0.5in

and .

5. Click Fillet , set fillet size as 0.1in, select top face of the part

and .

6. Turn the part to view bottom side, set D1 as 0.05in, click Shell , select bottom face

and .

7. Click Isometric View , click on Front Plane

and click on Reference Geometry>Plane.

Set distance to 0.65in

and .

8. Click Plane1 and click Sketch.

9. Click Rectangle , sketch on Plane1 as sketched below and use Smart Dimension for your dimensioning.

10. Click Features>Extrude Boss/Base set the Up To Surface

and .

11. Click Fillet , set fillet size as 0.1in, select side edge of the lid.
and .

12. And you’re done!

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2 Responses to “Tutorial #10: How to create bottle cap”

Robert Bulatowicz
March 13th, 2010 at 10:02 am
I am grateful for having stumbled onto this site and appreciate the information being passed along. How would you add threads to the bottle cap?
I’m trying to figure out how to add a half round path from the top of a dome to another point that would be located 90 degrees down and to the right or left. Like a point on a helix. I am a student at A-B Tech in Asheville NC and have a few projects I’m working on and this is something I was trying to create and then machine.
Thanks,
Robert
Di
September 24th, 2010 at 1:41 am
Got slightly lost on the fillet feature on last part of lesson…I think I got it in the end…thanks

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