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(HOW-TO)
(Euler was also credited for this on old 10 Franc Swiss banknote,
checkout Euler on wikipedia).
Robert Willis of Cambridge Universty was the first who demonstrated
advantage of involute shaped teeth over popular epicycliod shaped
teeth. Epicycloidal shaped teeth design belongs to Danish scientis
Ole Romar, but it is also worth noticing that Nicholas of Cusa
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But let's start. This document assumes that you have basic
CATIA experience and that you are not a complite moron.
Also, this document assumes that you know basic spur gear
geometry. Here is excellent document from www.bostongear.com
in case you are not familiar. Some basic notations:
rb - base cylinder radius
r - pitch circle radius
rk - outside circle radius
rf - root radius
a - presure angle (20deg)
m - moduo (in our example 20) m=p/3.14159 where p is circular pitch 2r=m*z
z - number of teeth (in our example 20)
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Fog and f(x) are two most important things you will use for gear design:
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You should do same for V except you should use Relations\y .Evaluate(0).
You will get starting point for involute:
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You can use View-> zoom and pan to see what actually you are
doing. Create plane. Use formula: inv(360/z)/4. You will get
-4.5deg angle offset from ZY plane.
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After this create rf circle and from inser menu use corner to
create corner. Corner dialog will apear:
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Circular pattern:
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Apply one more trim and here is our gear in normal plane:
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