Overview
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Learn how to design mechanical gears in SOLIDWORKS, using equations to drive the gear’s geometry.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Designing spur gears for mechanical projects
- What you should know
- Mechanical gear types and applications
- Common mechanical gear nomenclature
- Metric spur gear equations
- English spur gear equations
- Variables: Spur gear modeling
- Cylinder blank: Spur gear modeling
- Pitch, root, and outer diameter: Spur gear modeling
- Tooth cut: Spur gear modeling
- Fillets: Spur gear modeling
- Circular pattern: Spur gear modeling
- Modifying variables
- Designing your mounting plate
- Mating gears to the mounting plate
- Gear mate
- Animating your assembly
- Next steps
