Solidworks Gear Generator
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I realize only a minority of people on this site use Solidworks. I use it a lot, and I'm all that matters in the end :)
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Please help ... when I create a new configuration and update the design table for the number of teeth, nothing changes. Maybe the tooth profile changes (can't tell), but the tooth circular pattern feature's "number of instances" property remains fixed. I don't see how to link the number of repeats to the design table.
In short you can only have one gear per part file. There are several different ways of extracting a dumb model and inserting several non-configurable gear blanks into a part file and create configurations that way. Check with the solidworks community for tips on how to do that.
In short you can only have one gear per part file. There are several different ways of extracting a dumb model and inserting several non-configurable gear blanks into a part file and create configurations that way. Check with the solidworks community for tips on how to do that.
You can't create a new configuration. You have to modify the existing one via the first four cells in the design table. If you create a new configuration the equations won't transfer and general disarray will ensue.
You can't create a new configuration. You have to modify the existing one via the first few cells in the design table. If you try to create a new configuration the equations won't transfer, the sun will sink into a black hole and life as we know it will come to an end.
Cant get this to work. I'm using SW 2012 & keep getting a 'not enough memory' error, which I doubt is true as I have 6Gb & was only running SW with the blank gear file.
Thank you for sharing! This is the kind of things that will accelerate the design process of the whole community!!!!
This is SO F'N AWESOME!
Ugh, so much better than staring blankly at the machinists handbook for hours.
thanks a lot for your gears msruggles,
i tried to make a beavel gear but i think it doesnt run smoothly....
any advice how i can make it better? the small gear has a diameter of 2,5 cm and the big one 8cm they are both 7,5mm thick and there is a angle of 45 degrees between them.
Do you have an example of a beavel construction in solidw
orks?
greetings jelle
I would look at the bevel gear section from the technical library posted on SDP: http://www.sdp-si.com/D757/D75... (download the gear section, the bevel gear section starts on page 48 of the PDF). That should give you an idea of how the geometry is set up. I don't have a solidworks construct at the moment, but it's on the list of stuff I want to do.
Files saved in the current version of SolidWorks cannot be opened in older versions of SolidWorks. If you try to open a SolidWorks 2011 file using SolidWorks 2010, for example, you will get this error.
The recommended method for opening files from a future version is to Save As a Parasolid file (any version). Drawings can be saved as DXF/DWG (older version).
can you try this
This is EXACTLY what I was looking for!! Thank you so much! It's working great!
Thanks for posting this.. Now it will be easy to make my gears in SolidWorks.
Jax
Cool!
I can import solidworks.
Is there some 30 day trial I could use to run this and then import the created objects into my own designs?
(It seems they once had a 90 day trial but all the links are now 404)
I too use SW2010, any chance of saving back to 2010?
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How do I changed the face width of the gear?
Edit the tooth extrude in the design tree. The face width is not controlled by the design table.