i am trying to create a quater turn fastener, which would look like a half inch cylinder cut by a perpendicular 1/8" cylinder while the half inch cyliner spins. I tried the wrap feature with the deboss but it doesn't cut straight through the cylinder it only makes it half way through. I'm not sure what else to try, any help is always appreciated! Thanks
Have you tried looking at some of the supplier websites, they sometimes offer models for their products. This would be my first step rather than modeling something I may not have too. Sometimes something is there that you can simply modify. If not they might show how a similar part is modeled. That is if you don't find exported files such as STEP or IGES. A couple of good places to look are:
mcmaster.com
3dcontentcentral.com
grabcad.com
Kelvin,
You're right to reference those. Personally, I can't stand the Southco part numbering scheme.
I have some experience with 1/4 turns on injection molded plastic parts. I think the wrap feature will probably not be mold friendly, at least initially. You're going to have a male and a female type part where they connect together. On the female part you're going to need inserts in the mold, and it's better if they are smaller and the "peg" or post that the inserts form is also simple in shape. Mainly due to being constrained in a smaller space within the female connection region and tooling constraints due to this. You simply need an extrude to form the pegs or the start of the pegs, possible a type of cut to control the height of the pegs and their contour at the top of the pegs, a parting line draft, possibly a fillet. You could make the peg more funky or complex but typically it's not needed.
On the male part, you just form a "L" shaped cuts that goes with the mold pull cut down to a certain radius to give enough peg engagement from the female part so that it doesn't strip out or skip. The "L" shaped profile is a general shape, you can angle it some here or there to change it's path as it turns so that someone turns something and while turning it threads inward some also so that they don't need to push and turn at the same time if it didn't have any pitch. You can add bump(s) or other snapping or identifying features to give feedback to the end user that the part is fully engaged. I typically model an additional body in a part that has the "L" shaped profile to it extruded from a base part plane to a height above the part, cut the radius of depth into this new body, put some other base or simple type features into it, pattern the body, combine/subtract, then go add the more fine details to the 1/4 turn design to the part.
You part or sketches should be fully defined also, if not it can lead to problems downstream. I think you may not need a full 1/4 turn and could reduce it a bit. A 1/4 turn feels like more than it sounds. Also the "J" shaped path you have might not be needed. Maybe given your intent, it could be simplified into straight lines which are more easily produced. If you must keep the J path, try extruding a surface the radius or diameter that you want the path to be set to in it's height or depth. Then use the replace face tool selecting the J shaped surface on the part, then the extruded surface next, then delete the surface body.