Gears

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The Gears tool is used to create Spur, Rack, Bevel, Sprocket or Pulley in the scene or when you edit an existing component.

Components

The family of gears can be selected using the tabs.

Gears

You can change the type of gears clicking of the option buttons placed under the preview.

Parameters

Gears

  • Transmission Rate - This text box is available when drop spur on an existing one and use it for define rate.
  • Modulus - This combo box contains all the values related to the modulus available.
  • Teeth - This box lets you choose the number of teeth.
  • Material - Using this combo box, the user could select the code of the material related to the component.
  • Fast Mode - Select this check for positioning an schematic component.
  • Authored Mode - Select this check to deny acces to intellishape.

BOM Information

The bottom section of the dialog contains the items useful to set the information related to the component. Gears The section is divided in two parts: BOM Information and Custom Information. For a detailed explanation see here BOM information

The data structure behind Gears

Every component defined in the User Interface has behind him some data files which contain properties and parameters related to the component itself. These files are placed in the folder of the standard rule. The main files associated to the family of components are the followings: Main_NAME of Comp.ini and TableNAME.uni

Every record contains these fields:

  • TableName-> File containing the data values useful to build the component
  • Description -> Description of the Standard Rule
  • MaterialFile -> Default materials allowed for this kind of component
  • CodConf -> Configuration of Code
  • and other Fields specific for each components

For example, this is the structure of a Main_Spurs.ini file

#TableName	 | Description                      | Material      | CodeConf	| Density
tb_Spur1.uni | Ruote dentate cil. mozzo laterale| C 45 UNI 7845	| RDM<Z><M>	| 7.88
tb_Spur2.uni | Ruote dentate cil.			    | C 40 UNI 7845	| RD<Z><M>	| 7.88
tb_Spur3.uni | Ruote dentate cil. in ghisa		| G 20 UNI 5007	| RDG<Z><M>	| 7.0

Under each section it is possible to place several records; every record refers to a particular rule.

The TableNAME.uni files, contain the fields of the standard values related to gears normative; the structure of the files are self-explaining.

#M	 |  Z	| D1	| DM	| B     | A
1.00 |  12	| 0.00	| 9.00	| 15.00	| 25.00
1.00 |  13	| 0.00	| 10.00	| 15.00	| 25.00
....
1.50 |  28	| 12.00	| 30.00	| 17.00	| 30.00
1.50 |  29	| 12.00	| 30.00	| 17.00	| 30.00
....
....
6.00 |  24	| 0.00	| 110.0 | 60.00	| 80.00
6.00 |  25	| 0.00	| 110.0 | 60.00	| 80.00