Simple Planetary Gears
Derived from
Description
Based off OpenSCAD code from thing:7390 (after cutting out significant portions of it - because the original thing is much more than a toy).
The gear ratios are very interesting, and (at least at first) non-intuitive, depending on the part that is held stationary.
With a fixed Annulus or Sun, this gives 1:6.
With a fixed Planet carrier, this gives 1:5.
Instructions
2. Assemble.
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Could you color it? It would be cooler looking and easier to comprehend if the different types of parts were different colors.
Best regards,
Steve C.
Any chance of saving the scad file to DXF format and posting here for the laser guys? thx
Jon,
I am trying to build a rope machine and this sun gear configuration looks like ti will work. I need to build a housing to hold the gears and have he 3 gears turn three small hooks. the middle gear can be motorized or cranked I think.
Anthony
Great place to calculate gears and ratios and all that kind of stuff...
http://woodgears.ca/gear_cutti...
Also can you post a DXF file from the scad file here for us guys with a laser cutter/engraver? thx
Whatever happened to "GregFrost's involute gear script", I cannot find it anywhere now.
Is says above: "Derived from 1:216 gearbox" thing 7390.
But that has DiffPlanet.scad which contains a reference to this: "
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lt;MCAD/involute_gears.scad
&
gt;"
There is nothing called "involute_gears.scad" in any of these places:
thing:7390 has "DiffPlanet.scad" but no "involute_gears.scad" which it refers to
thing:3575 has "parametric_" v4.0 and v5.0 names (must i rename them?)
thing:3534 has "parametric_involute_gear.scad" - change Diffplanet to match?
3543 refers to http://github.com/TheOtherRob/... but it is a dead link
thing:3575 has the" parametric..." 4.0/5.0 again, no 'involute..." and leads to
thing:3547 "the original", which says "404 You've reached the end of thingiverse"
thing:3001 has something with a similar filename, but in python
http://www.thingiverse.com/Gre... doesn't refer to his script at all.
NOTHING in THINGIVERSE seems to have "involute-gears.scad".
Searching "GregFrost's involute gear script" in the wild:
gives http://www.makerbot.com/blog/t... which has the same-old.
gives links back to things 3547
&
amp; 3575, which I covered before.
What does everyone else know that I'm clueless about?
Waaah! (where's my pacifier).
Hah! Just yesterday I had a visitor to my desk ask about a set of these. Next desk toy!
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I'm surprised that the Annulus doesn't call off. How sturdy is this?
Pretty much has to be on a flat surface to be used. I have been meaning in revisit this and add a holder for the sun and annulus - but it's not high on my priorities.