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Re: Sprockets in Inventor...

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Originally Posted by Drew Hopman
Anyone know how accurate the sprocket creator in inventor is? I was using it and the sprockets that were produced didn’t seem very accurate. I was hoping to find out if someone has tried to machine parts from their assigned dimensions. We are looking to machine our own sprockets.
We have used the sprocket function and had the results water jetted. The path we have used is make the sprocket in mechanical desktop, scale it up by 25.4 and finish it up in inventor. In years past what you output from desktop is read buy inventor as metric no mater the units used in desktop. The link we've used to learn this process is http://www.avatechsolutions.com/trai...ion.asp?sgid=4 and search for sprocket. There is also a shareware tool for desktop that does all kinds of gears and sprockets, don't remember the details of that product, we did use it to make a rack that mated with the gear on previous window motors.