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I have some gears from a toy rc-car gearbox, I want to rebuild.
I thought this would be an easy task with the new gear-tool in the powerpack of sharkcad 12.
But I don't get a proper result. The gear, the tool is creating, is way too big...
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If I remember rightly the input needs to be in inches. Don't know why but when I tried this out years ago it was the issue then
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Originally Posted by: Kartoffel The gear, the tool is creating, is way too big...
Hello Kartoffel,
When the gear tool was introduced there was a confusion in units : mm were changed into inches.
It makes everything bigger with factor 25.4.
I thought this had been solved...
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Thanks for the hint. With the module in inches and the radius in mm it works. Stupid! But in the end, the tooth-shape is totally different, so I will manually design one tooth and then go on with the polar duplicate ... Markus
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Originally Posted by: Kartoffel Thanks for the hint. I will manually design one tooth and then go on with the polar duplicate ... Markus
In the past I used a web site to design gears, it was free and exporting DXF to shark.
I think it was that one :
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I used this program now:
http://forestmoon.com/Software/GearDXF/ But in the end, it is very dissapointing for me, that the "gear-tool" has only basic parameters + the problem with the units...
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The unit issues should have been fixed in V14.
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Originally Posted by: Tim Olson The unit issues should have been fixed in V14.
How about switching completely to mm?
This problem in this thread is a problem with relative and absolute values.
I have such a problem found i the sheet metal tool of MegaCAD. Wen i load there the imperial Models from Shark, i need in the Sheet Metal tool then values in Inches.
Switch the native system please to Millimeter because i have no possibility to change a 3D-Modal from Imperial in Millimeter. It stay everytime in Imperial, because the programs work with relative values, it doesn't matter until they work with absolute values.
OS: Windows 10 | CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 2700 | RAM: 32 GB | Graphic: AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 | Shark FX 9 Build 1162 | Unit: mm
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Yeah, I had the same issue using the tool. Pitch was in inch on a metrical Shark.
Another online tool cool to explore may be to add some features in the Shark Gear Tool?
https://drivetrainhub.com/gears/
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