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Re: Inventor Question about Opening .stp files

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Originally Posted by ttldomination View Post
Awesome, Thanks for the link. It's just as good as the original.

While I have your attentions, I just have one last question.

I have been wanting to make my own gearbox for a couple of days now, but I'm just kind of lost as to how to approach this. I guess the main thing that is throwing me off is the distance between the center of the gears.

I was tempted to say that the distance between the center of gears would be equal to the inner radius of the gear + the outer radius of the other gear, but I know that gears don't sit tight into each other.

Then, I was just tempted to eyeball it, but that's not a "correct" workflow and it's not something that I wanted to depend on.

Thanks for any help.
Sunny,

I used a calculator that chrisL made and a member on our team integrated parts of it into one big one.

http://www.team1323.com/resources/ma...alculator.html

Just enter 20 under DP. It adds a .003 to the overall Center to Center. I've used this multiple times in designing gearboxes for last year and this year.

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Originally Posted by Jeff 801 View Post
You can use Inventor Design accelator and set the gear size (teeth) and the pitch and the pressure angle and it will produce a center distance some people add .003 to that number. I believe AndyMark does (I maybe wrong please correct me)
Yep Jeff,

You are right with the added Center to Center distance.

-RC
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