Tutorial: Gear made in a diffrent way

[New2CADmike]

I am very new here and have been learning from the best of you on how ACAD 2000 works..And I made this gear in a different way than the other tutorial was done by I think it was Fuccaro..

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In the first photo i created the gear profile using the 2Dgear lisp and copied and moved the second gear profile
in the second image I created a solid cylinder..green...exploded the two gear profiles and then recreated a poly line on each profile of one complete tooth

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Then with surftab1 set at 60, I rulesurf the two poly lines

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I tried several different places to put the UCS to use the m2s lisp properly..It finally worked at about the midpoint along the surf grid..Using the m2s lisp I made the solid in the second photo..the UCS in the second photo did not work properly with the m2s lisp but it did with the placement in the first photo

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I then arrayed the 20 red solids and then subtracted the 20 red solids away from the green cylinder and that finished it..I have a 2.8 pentium proccesor on this computer and on the final subtraction of the solids it took about 45 seconds for it to calculate it out for the final gear..Mike

[CADTutor]

Good work and nice tutorial. As you can see, I tidied it up a bit for you to make it easier to read.

[New2CADmike]

Cadtutor...Thank you for the cleanup...I sat down to figure out how to work with photos that work in this forum..I think I am getting better at it..:oops:I forgot to add this photo showing the selection of the gear profile poly line and also practice inserting photos..Thanks again for the help..Mike
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[Mr T]

Good clean tutorial, easy to follow. Howabout recording your next one using the Windows Media Player encoder ?

You could have done it without LISP stuff. Using RULESURF for a surface version or EXTRUDE and path.

Nick

[New2CADmike]

Thank you Mr.T for the compliment...There is one thing that I learned fast on Autocad...there is many ways to do the same thing..all of the other stuff has been a bit slow but steady...Your Ideas to do the gear are excelent..Now creating that media player..are you saying make a wmv.file like you did with the upload of images tutorial..? Mike

[ascorbic]

mike there's no picture... could you post this again? thanks!