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Are gear mates really that hard to do in OnShape?
wesley_church
Member Posts: 10 EDU
Maybe just me, but gear mates in OnShape seem much harder than in Solidworks (from which I'm trying to migrate our HS robotics team). I'm importing parts (gears) from AndyMark which are being (dual planar) mated to a hex shaft. The hex shaft is fixed mated to a hex bearing mounted in a hole in a base plate. The bearing is revolute mated to the base plate hole. Similarly for the meshing gear. I gather I have to calculate the ratio between the diameters of the two gears, and use the two bearing mounting revolute mates to mate the gears, is this right? Is it an IP issue that you can't just click on circular face of each gear and have the gear mate created?
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matthew_stacy
Member Posts: 487 PRO
@wesley, mating gears is not particularly difficult in Onshape. Use REVOLUTE or other appropriate mates to constrain the motion of each gear individually. Then apply a Gear RELATION to those MATES. The attached screenshot illustrates a typical feature tree for this.Take a deep breathe and slowly repeat the phrase, "Onshape is different than SolidWorks". Onshape offers some very unique and generally innovative workflows but will force you to unlearn some of your old standbys.
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