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Help with 3D spur gear drawing (no tooth width given) !!


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As the title states, I am trying my best to create this drawing for my AutoCAD class,  but I am having no luck due to missing information and my lack of skills. This is the first module where we are covering 3D modeling so the textbook has been no help other than basic commands. What I am most frustrated with is not having the tooth width. I have started by drawing the diameters of the circles. Then I drew a line from center to outside most circle quadrant. From there I used polar array on the line with 60 items to hopefully get the tooth width or a way of drawing the arcs, but I am having no luck. I realize I am probably going about this wrong, so any help would be much appreciated. The lack of information in this class has been very frustrating for a beginner like myself. In what situation would I not have the tooth width when drawing? Why do I have to derive information when I'm just learning the software.... Anywho, please help me before I go insane. Thanks!!!! 

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Below is the radius I keep getting after using a 60 item polar array for the width. I then drew 3 point arcs from offset line to the pitch intersection and then the root. I think this is where I'm going wrong, but don't know how to correct it. 

 

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Unfortunately, a lot of courses try to teach you to read plans as well as draw them. The information seems to be there, but you have to puzzle it out.

 

One element of the tooth has two points of tangency and a radius. Once you draw that arc, you have the point of intersection with the outside radius. The outer width of the tooth is almost irrelevant to the design, because it's the last piece. The most important dimension seems to be the pitch, because that's where the teeth meet.

 

Mechanical isn't really my field, so someone else will probably be able to give you better information.

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