Thread: WCP 32 DP Gear Pitch Diameter
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Re: WCP 32 DP Gear Pitch Diameter
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Originally Posted by Cothron Theiss View Post
Number of teeth / Diametral pitch = pitch diameter.
Alongside this, it's also helpful to know the equation for a gear's outer diameter: OD = (N+2)/DP, where OD is the Outer Diameter in inches, N is the number of teeth, and DP is the Diametrical Pitch of the gear (32, in this case).

Modeling the outer diameter of a gear is helpful in seeing where there's interference with other parts of the robot near the gear.

Unsure if this would be helpful, but I made this video for my students a while back, and it covers some useful gear calculations.
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