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Tutorial 06 - Week8 PDF
Tutorial 06 - Week8 PDF
17-21) 2014
A list of software that can assist in design of mechine elements. You are encouraged to do a
Excel integrated. It includes design package for gear, shaft, bolt, spring, bearing, etc.
It is used to be called “mechsoft”, which was bought by Autodesk. You can register and
The design accelerator has built in design equations for different machine elements.
A very complete parts library including bearings, gears, bolts. You need to design your
shaft.
An European software works for gear, shaft, bearing, springs, belts with good interface.
(5) MDSolids
For gear only; for spur and helical gear only. It contains a “super set” of AGMA standard
2001.
Given:
Diametral pitch, = 2;
Pitch diameter: = = = 9 in
.
Addendum, = = 0.5 in; Dedendum, = = 0.625 in
.
Clearance, = − =
(This circle may not be necessary, but I keep it here for reference) Diameter of the
Step 1: Sketch the addendum circle and extrude to get the gear body. Use face width of 2 inches
If we would like to start the involute from point then the parametric equation is
= cos + + sin +
2 2
= sin + − cos +
2 2
If we would like to start the involute from point and direction of the involute as shown,
= (cos(− − ) − sin(− − ))
= (sin(− − ) + cos(− − ))
Note that we can use the base circle diameter dimension in the
We can also generate the involute curve starting anywhere on the base circle. Since we
know the number of teeth, thus we know how much angle corresponds to circular pitch
°
or circular pitch along base circle, which is = = 20°. Since tooth thickness is the
same as width of space, we have four equally distributed angle along the circular pitch,
−
= − rad = 0.854 deg
Center
Line
Inv1 Inv2
Pitch circle
Base circle
360
360
4
Radial
Line
O x
Here are the expression for creating the following two involute curves.
X(t) = "D2@Sketch2"*0.5*(cos(t)+t*sin(t))
Y(t) = "D2@Sketch2"*0.5*(sin(t)-t*cos(t))
X(t) = "D2@Sketch2"*0.5*(cos(-t-2*"D4@Sketch2"*pi/180)-t*sin(-t-2*"D4@Sketch2"*pi/180))
Y(t) = "D2@Sketch2"*0.5*(sin(-t-2*"D4@Sketch2"*pi/180)+t*cos(-t-2*"D4@Sketch2"*pi/180))
Note that “D2@Sketch2” is the dimension for base circle diameter. “D4@Sketch2” is for
− .
Under the same sketch, Trim off unecassary curves and lines to keep onely the profile of the
width of space (you need to keep the radial line between base circle and dedendum circle.)
Step 4: Create the Extruded Cut using the width of space profile.
Click on “Extruded Cut” feature and select the “sketch 2” which is the sketch we just finished.
Step 5: fillet the bottom edge. Fillet radius should be smaller than the clearance .
Step 6: Do a circular pattern for both the extruded cut and the fillet features. Enter the number of
instance as 18.