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Nx gear feature
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Nx gear feature

Nx gear feature

(OP)
Hello everyone...

I'm trying to make a parametrized feature of a gear.
If someone have a tutorial or eaven a sample of how to do it, I would be greateful.

Regards,
Tadej

RE: Nx gear feature

(OP)
Ok...thanks...
But this is to simple for me....I need a gear with corection and other details...

but thank you for the NX open programme...it is useful to see how thinks works.

Thank you,
Tadej

RE: Nx gear feature

Lars,

Very interesting approach to creating a gear tooth profile. One question though, why the offset curves (features #10 & 11).

Thanks in advance for your reply.

Ron
Design Analyst

RE: Nx gear feature

Well done Speedster!

He did it in NX-5 for those one earlier releases.

This is the sort of thing I had been wanting for some time even though I'm not tuned into whether AGMA is the best or most common standard. Many of the gears we worked with are either SAE or Metric standard and the trouble is always that if you want to calculate and repoduce the involute geometry correctly then you've an uphill battle. One of the main problems is that access to information about the geometric detail of the involute form seems to be restricted to those willing to pay the standards orgainizations for their documetation.

I was therefore impressed to see how you had defined the involute and wondered if you would allow me to be ignorant enough to ask whether it is accurate or not?

I realise there are other examples available that do a passable job of putting teeth on a diameter but providing a correct involute tooth form that maintains a good contact angle is a different matter yet one highly to be desired given that we're using a high end CAD system to define such a common engineering mechanism.

Cheers

Hudson

RE: Nx gear feature

I'm glad you liked it.  The involute curve is mathematically accurate. I got the equations from a Pro/E tutorial document I found on the web.  It was fairly easy to adapt it to NX. When I first created the model I compared the tooth profile with one generated using Mastercam, and the profiles were identical.

http://www.cadquest.com/books/pdf/gears.pdf

The calculations for tooth width, depth, dedendum, etc. are based on AGMA standards.   My job involves gearbox design with plastic molded gears, and AGMA standards work fine most of the time.

The involute equations are the same for metric or english gears, so with a bit of work my model could be converted to create a metric gear.


 

RE: Nx gear feature

Hey Speedster,

I was wondering if you had any ideas about the part not updating correctly if I try making the gear larger than 1 inch. (say, 35 dp and 52 teeth).  Do you get errors also?

RE: Nx gear feature

I had an Excel Spreedsheet that spits out a x y and z function.  This is made for I-Deas Function splines not NX. I do not know how simliar Function Splines in I-Deas is versus the Law curves in NX?

RE: Nx gear feature

I have seen something similar an excel spreadsheet that spits out a DXF file. It is not however superior in my opinion to the gear that speedster29 above created.

Best Regards

Hudson

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RE: Nx gear feature

This one just creates the true Involute curve for you.  Then you have to rotate and mirror and such to get your gear teeth with correct tooth thicknesses.  We also make custom PM gears so this method lets us get our root done how we want it.  We also use this create true involute ansi splines.  We have wire cut many gears and splines using this geometry and it works great for us.

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