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Custom Feature: Gear Rack
imants_smidchens
Member Posts: 64 EDU
Realized I needed to design two gear racks for a robotics project, and rather than spend 20 minutes doing it manually, I wrote up a custom feature to automate it with some quality of life features (helical/herringbone teeth, fast regeneration, alignment stuff, blah blah blah)
Snag it here if you'd like!
100 tooth regen time
Got me thinking that it might be interesting to try to create a rack generator that works for an arbitrary path - generating the correct involute based on the local curvature. Could lead to some neat mechanisms, lmk if that's something you'd find useful.
Cheers!
Imants
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Cool! Ty! 😎
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