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why do gear teeth intersect each other?

carson_evans
carson_evans Posts: 4 EDU
in Community Support
iv'e done the gear relation perfect for these 2 gears but when turned the teeth go through each other

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  • carson_evans
    carson_evans Posts: 4 EDU
    Never mind everybody I've figured it out.
  • BluesMatt
    BluesMatt Posts: 1 ✭
    What was the answer Carson? I am new to Onshape wanting the model gears.
  • konstantin_shiriazdanov
    konstantin_shiriazdanov Posts: 1,221 ✭✭✭✭✭
    @BluesMatt
    mechanical constraint commands have one input field for both driving and driven mate. one of the tips here is to insure that you select driving and driven mate in the correct order so that mate ratio would link mate coordinates in the correct order.
    not very obvious and sometimes I had to sort out both combinations to make it work


  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Posts: 6,097 image
    @BluesMatt there is a spur gear custom feature here https://www.onshape.com/featurescript 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • monty_martin
    monty_martin Posts: 2 ✭
    you can just click edit on the gear and tell it to reverse order to make them go opposite directions

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