Problem revolving a sweep feature

joshua_clark_mm2

I am working on building a worm gear model. I figured out how to make the worm part. But the gear part is proving difficult. I cut a v shaped grove in a cylinder shape at an angle to make a nearly helical gear tooth. However I can't revolve the sweeps around cylinder to make the teeth.

jakeramsley

Can you post a picture of what you currently have?  I'm assuming that you want to use a circular pattern of the sweeps and then do a boolean remove, but I can't be sure.

nav

Hi @joshua_clark_mm2 look at this post maybe it will help.
 https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/1639/milling-gears#latest

andrew_troup

@joshua_clark_mm2
There's an excellent public model of a Torsen differential at
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/53082dd4775c4696a9a20c57/w/49204547641d44a88924e24a
in which helical gears are modelled using a workflow which (from memory) would adapt quite well to a wormgear