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Metric Gear Template (by Daniel Engineering Solutions)
Hey guys I've been working to create a gear tool as outlined in the following video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6tDWJsNsok&t=434s
It's far from perfect, and will probably require a bit of tinkering if you plan on using it a lot but I figured I'd publish it just in case anyone is looking for something like this. Note that all the comments saying which parameters need to be changes are listed on the G002 and G003. If anyone has an idea on how to make this work better I'm all ears and willing to help in anyway I can. I'm working on creating an inch based gear template as well, but I figured there's probably more interest in the metric one first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6tDWJsNsok&t=434s
It's far from perfect, and will probably require a bit of tinkering if you plan on using it a lot but I figured I'd publish it just in case anyone is looking for something like this. Note that all the comments saying which parameters need to be changes are listed on the G002 and G003. If anyone has an idea on how to make this work better I'm all ears and willing to help in anyway I can. I'm working on creating an inch based gear template as well, but I figured there's probably more interest in the metric one first.
(no subject) (by Paul)
@Daniel This is pretty cool. In g003 it says to drag a circle, but that group has Zero DoF. What's up with that? I can't drag anything in that group.
Also, you could do a helix instead of a straight extrusion and just set the pitch to zero as a default. Unfortunately Helix does not produce a mathematically perfect helix and we don't currently subdivide it to get "chord tolerance" accuracy. It might be fine for a half-tooth of twist though. It's been a while since I looked at a paper on that type of error.
Also, you could do a helix instead of a straight extrusion and just set the pitch to zero as a default. Unfortunately Helix does not produce a mathematically perfect helix and we don't currently subdivide it to get "chord tolerance" accuracy. It might be fine for a half-tooth of twist though. It's been a while since I looked at a paper on that type of error.
(no subject) (by Daniel Engineering Solutions)
Paul, thanks for pointing that out. I forgot to make the module ratio reference. The video tutorial shows that you have to make it reference, got to G003, drag the circle to the correct value, then go back to G002 and make the value non-reference (and hard code in the round value you're aiming for).
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