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Utilizing pre-made gears in a gearbox
I'm starting to design a gearbox in Inventor, and I guess I've run into a problem. Instead of using the design accelerator to make the gears, I would prefer to use gears that already exist that would be difficult to create on my own (such as dog gears or spoked gears). Is it possible to take pre-existing gear models and constrain them together like the ones output by the design accelerator (i.e with movement constraints)? If that's not possible, how would I go about properly distancing gears from one another to at least make it appear right?
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There are gear models available on Vex pro's website. They have a wide variety of gears to choose from.
There are motions constraint available for use in inventor. I don't remember exactly how to use it, but I think its in the same constraint window that you would use for a mate or flush constraint. You can use a gear distance calculator to get the distance between gears right. They are all over the place online. Hope this helps, let me know if you have any other questions! |
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Re: Utilizing pre-made gears in a gearbox
For finding the distance between the centers of two meshing gears (in inches), you can use the following formula:
(T1 + T2) / (2*Dp) + C Where:
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Re: Utilizing pre-made gears in a gearbox
Thank you both so much!
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This works perfectly. Thanks! |
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