Thread: Cylinder mock-ups of gears in Inventor?
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Re: Cylinder mock-ups of gears in Inventor?
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Originally Posted by Tom Bottiglieri
If I am understanding this correctly, you are taking the Diametral Pitch (20) and dividing it by the # of teeth (40)..

20/40 = 1/2

Am I wrong?

(Just trying to fix any confusion this could cause )
other way arround...(# of teeth)/DP= Pitch diameter
metric gears, on the other hand, use module: (# of teeth)*DP= Pitch diameter
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