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New custom feature: Arbitrary gear path
imants_smidchens
Member Posts: 78 EDU
hey all! another janky feature from the smidchens household - take whatever path you want (elliptical, polygonal, spline…) and generate gear teeth along that path using local curvature to drive involute profile.
snag it here: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/8f033780ed64a1971e38c2a9/
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Cool stuff, never had to use one of non-cylindrical gear types but always admired the coherence
Very cool! There are times you could make good use of that, E.G. for retractable devices in automotive applications.
I know not yet which project this will be useful for, but my company has dozens of gear walls in the portfolio. This opens up the design space a little more to get weird with it. Surely we will not regret making square gears the primary drive of an exhibit.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | MeddlerLots of improvements in latest version! Better performance, better stability, fixed some geometry issues, added more feature capabilites (root fillet, clocking, editing logic, and lots more)
plus published with guide pdf etc.
What wizardry is this?
I kinda get the pitch circle and the other pitch ribbon, but the other wavy one…. can you explain the man behind the curtain here?
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn