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Re: Gear Lab - Cylindrical, Bevel, Face Gears
I affirm the issue Lazar brought up r.e. the bevel angle. I was able to resolve my issue by going to this calculator:
Importing the number of teeth I want and my desired shaft angle, and then picking any face width. Adjusting the face width didn't seem to affect things. Then, I took the bevel angle output from that calculator and input it into OnShape. Onshape is still reporting shaft angles about five thousandths of a degree off from perfectly level, but I think that the manufacturing processes I'm using are not up to producing this level of precision anyway, so this is good enough for me.
The ideal would be if the featurescript could be updated to automatically calculate the bevel angle. The trigonometry for it does not look that difficult:
The known terms are E, z1_m, and z2_m. We just have to solve for the two smaller angles. I have forgotten the trigonometry that can be used to do this, but OnShape knows how to do it for me!
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/7cdf7f6e4d2f3a54505e4354/w/ba750b40c81df34fce85dc6c/e/6bd6eab9eb8b7e7a3625c895?renderMode=0&uiState=6716ebe4a1a9462e4e2bccae
If you look at the sketch I made, I tried to replicate the diagram shown in the image.
The two driven dimensions are the bevel angles of each gear. You can see that the sketch matches the gears pretty much exactly if you roll to the end of the document. If I input the angle between the vertical line and the the right side of the triangle as the bevel angle of the first gear, then I get a perfect 90 degree angle on the shafts. I don't know how to create driven angles in OnShape, and I can't figure out how to edit gearlab, so I guess doing this by hand is necessary for now. But if someone could update this FS to do this automatically that would be cool.
Re: Is there a FONT for Text that is automatically ok for stencils
Allerta Stencil will do it.
Re: Configurable Variable in Part Name
I have an assembly with several... several (>100) configuration combinations. I was hoping to build a smart string for the part number based on the configuration parameters but I am struggling to figure something out. As of right now, for my assembly, the only way I know how to populate all of the part numbers is to hard code them for each configuration. I need to do this because when exporting these assemblies to a PLM (e.g. Duro), I want the PLM to catch that the part already exists and not have someone create a new part number for an existing assembly.
To me, this is the single most important reason of being able to build a smart string in the part number field of an assembly.
cc: @alan_baljeu
Re: Methodology for building a part which interfaces to a point cloud?
Been doing this sort of thing for awhile now. but looks like you may have figured it out. the basics for anyone searching down the road are create planes and curves based on the mesh vertexes and go to town.
MDesign
Re: Methodology for building a part which interfaces to a point cloud?
@kenn_sebesta167 - This link should show methodology, but all dimensions would obviously not be to scale.
Also this is just a surface, and not a sheet-metal part (could be thickened into a solid). I do agree with Scotty on the taking careful measurements and just modeling this part.
Re: new Featurescript: Statics Solver
Cool! :0) Could be helpful in conceptual design.
Re: How can I add text in a Sketch that contains a Caron (e.g., Unicode U+030C (ǒ))?
What font are you using? Arimo, Didact Gothic, Inter, Michromata, MPLUSRounded1c, Noto Sans, Noto Sans Chinese Simplified, Noto Sans Chinese Traditional, Noto Sans Japanese, Noto Sans Korean, Noto Serif, Source Sans Pro and Tinos do show ǒ correctly.
[Edited to update the list of fonts that show correct ǒ character]
Re: new Featurescript: Statics Solver
It gives live results as the sketch is changed with config variables
Re: How do I edit a post here?
If you have taken the time to set up an account with that name, I seriously doubt you would listen to any advice given here.
Re: Where are the tutorial videos?
Most of the learning center is free. Certainly enough of it is free to get you started. I would recommend going through that as it's the best organized and most up to date.
If that's too structured, try the official YouTube channel. Just don't waste too much time with random people's videos from 7 years ago. So much changes and the quality is usually questionable.
S1mon