Lightening Gearboxes?
Hello Forum,
I have a question today regarding the lightening of gears in our gearboxes. Currently, our homemade, dual-shifting gearbox weighs in at around 3.5 - 4 lbs before any lightening. I know that, on our gears, there is a lot of weight we could shave off by milling into the sides.
However, what engineering principles/equations/testing can be done to optimize weight without affecting the strength/performance of our gears.
The Gearbox is fully designed in Solidworks, however I do not know how/if I could use SimulationXpress FEA modeling to complete this task.
Thanks everybody in advance!
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Nonetheless, I would welcome it, as long as [The President] didn't restrict the number of discs that a Robot could hold. Oops, wait, too late, the GDC already did that. :-) - MooreteP [more] 
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