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How to set up gear conection in ProE

How to set up gear conection in ProE

How to set up gear conection in ProE

(OP)
This may have already been asked. But a search didn't turn up anything.

Does anyone know of an example on the web or can tell me how to do gear conections. I am using Pro/E 2001. Can it be done? I have done some roller bearings and it sure looks like they have the right rotation. All I used there was a Pin conection.

I figured that maybe contact was all that was needed. I tried seting up two cylanders in contact (0 clearance) several type of rotating conection on both. A driver on one doen't make the other turn.

Will it work if I put touth profiles on the cylander and mesh them together?

Andy

RE: How to set up gear conection in ProE

If I recall correctly, gear connections in 2001 were not available in every package. If you cannot see an option for a gear connection in mechanism mode, I am afraid that you will not be able to assign a gear connection. If you are using 2001 student, I don't think this functionality is available at all. If you are using a student version, I recommend Wildfire 2.0's student version. Gear connections are possible in this version.

The best workaround that I can think of is to assign motors to each of the rotating axes so that they move proportionally to one another during kinematic analysis. It won't let you drag the gears and watch them move in sync. This will let you make a movie, though.

Modeling contact (cams) on the tooth profiles would take forever to do and will take a very good computer a very very long time to compute. Mechanism design in Pro/E isn't made for that kind of simulation... This won't work at all if you have gear teeth that are curved in two directions (like helical or worm gears).

RE: How to set up gear conection in ProE

(OP)
Thanks.

Right now I am trying to do a resolver mechanism that will control phase relations between two crank shafts. It's a variable clearance steam engine design.

Looks like I will have to go to wildfire. Darn I have a lot of parts and assemblies already done. From what I see in other posts I wont be able to load them in wildfire.

RE: How to set up gear conection in ProE

Its actually the other way around. You can load your 2001 files into Wildfire 1 or 2, but once you save them, you can't go back to 2001.

You should find Wildfire much easier to use than 2001 as well.

Cheers
Mark

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