Hi,
I’ve been requested by a friend to help out on his arcitecture project. One
of the things he was looking for was a program to calculate optimal gear
sizes for the correct amount of teeth and spacing between the teeth and
visa versa. Is there anything out there that can do that?
In particular the idea is two put two gears (or however many) together and
the program should work out the right amount and spacing of teeth when you
want two gears of differing dimensions meshed together.
Once constructed with this program, he can then go out and get them etched
or 3d printed.
http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html might be useful,
although I’ve not cut any gears from it myself. It gives you an option
to download HPGL, which you should be able to load or convert with
Inkscape.On 22 August 2013 21:11, Harvinder Atwal harvinder@harvinderatwal.com wrote:
Hi,
I’ve been requested by a friend to help out on his arcitecture project. One
of the things he was looking for was a program to calculate optimal gear
sizes for the correct amount of teeth and spacing between the teeth and visa
versa. Is there anything out there that can do that?
In particular the idea is two put two gears (or however many) together and
the program should work out the right amount and spacing of teeth when you
want two gears of differing dimensions meshed together.
Once constructed with this program, he can then go out and get them etched
or 3d printed.
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I agree with Jim here. I have used this generator in a recent project and
it worked superbly. The alternatives I know of involve calculating your own
involute gear parameters. This is something I have done before and would
rather not do again.
This is a great resource I have bookmarked should you want to know the
maths behind it.
http://www.cartertools.com/involute.html
Barry CarterOn 22 August 2013 21:18, Jim MacArthur jim@mode7.co.uk wrote:
http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html might be useful,
although I’ve not cut any gears from it myself. It gives you an option
to download HPGL, which you should be able to load or convert with
Inkscape.
On 22 August 2013 21:11, Harvinder Atwal harvinder@harvinderatwal.com wrote:
Hi,
I’ve been requested by a friend to help out on his arcitecture project.
One
of the things he was looking for was a program to calculate optimal gear
sizes for the correct amount of teeth and spacing between the teeth and
visa
versa. Is there anything out there that can do that?
In particular the idea is two put two gears (or however many) together
and
the program should work out the right amount and spacing of teeth when
you
want two gears of differing dimensions meshed together.
Once constructed with this program, he can then go out and get them
etched
or 3d printed.
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