pic: Introducing BarBox: My First Attempt at Gearbox Design

[cadandcookies]

I'm liking your progress so far! It reminds me a lot of one of West Coast Products' gearboxes.

Small nitpicky thing on your latest version-- the edges are looking rather sharp. Whether you're planning on manufacturing it or not, it's best practice to design for manufacture, and nearly any manufacturing method that you would use in competitive robotics is going to need to have some sort of radius where you're cutting. I personally design most of my practice stuff to be manufactured with a 1/2" endmill because our primary machining sponsor uses CNC mills. Also for sharing screenshots, you might want to use shading with edges (most CAD programs have different rendering modes-- wireframe, shading, shading with edges, etc), which would make it a bit easier to pick out the finer points of your design.

Just something to consider for your designs.
(Also, I love the color scheme-- red and black looks very snappy!)