I'm about to set out on a quest to model involute teeth on an elliptical (or other non-circular) gear. Does anyone know of an easy way to model involutes, and is curve-pattern my best bet at getting teeth to follow the perimeter?
I'm importing a parasolid, and it comes in as an assembly with 30 components. I don't want all those components as seperate files, I just want 1 part file.
I can not merge the component parts, because some of the geometry is flaky and is not solid (it's surfaces). How can I make this just a...
Ahhh Help! I created a whole bunch of drawings in 3rd angle, now I need to change them to 1st. Changing the property of the sheet works, but the drawings are useless (because the projected views each keep their dimensions, and most are now on hidden surfaces).
Is there a way to switch to 1st...
I've got an assembly with with hundreds of sub-assembly configurations. Each top level assembly is a configuration of the various sub-assembly configurations. In the top level assemblies I can move the interconnected 4-bar linkage configurations.
The problem I'm having is that Solidworks...
