I'd like to see a tutorial about modeling the teeth on spur and bevel gears. I personally don't need them to be completely accurate, but they need to look right, for rendering. I've seen tutorials using other CAD packages, but they go light on how to actually draw the teeth, and delve into the math of making accurate teeth in horrifying detail.
Drawing gear teeth
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If you need anything more than that video let me know.
albie0803
Alibre Super User
If you are looking for "standard" gears, then the built in gear generator in Alibrescript will will be fine.
If you need oversized or undersized gears I have a script that puts a tooth on an existing blank, which can then be patterned. (The script can't do it yet)
It works for both spur and helical gears.
We have our own gear cutting machines so my drawings only need the correct blank OD for the turners. The teeth are just eye candy.
Here is one of my scripted gears.
The script assumes that the axis of the gear is on the X-Axis
If you need oversized or undersized gears I have a script that puts a tooth on an existing blank, which can then be patterned. (The script can't do it yet)
It works for both spur and helical gears.
We have our own gear cutting machines so my drawings only need the correct blank OD for the turners. The teeth are just eye candy.
Here is one of my scripted gears.
The script assumes that the axis of the gear is on the X-Axis