Grooves

Grooves alt > The Grooves tool is used to create grooves or chamfers on the shaft part. Grooves

This dialog box is displayed every time you drop the Grooves tool on the part or when you edit (the Intellishape) an existing one.

Grooves

  1. Edge selected for Chamfer
  2. Edge selected for Groove Grooves can be placed only on cylindrical parts, drop the tool on an circular edge (otherwise you will be shown a warning message).

Components

Grooves Grooves You can change the type of Grooves by clicking a drop down button Normative and Type.

Parameters

Grooves When you change the type of the Grooves, the dialog box updated the values text box.

In this box, it shows a warning message if the Groove is not compatible with the diameter of the shaft.

The data structure behind Grooves

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: Grooves.ini and *.dat

Every record contains these fields:

  • ID -> the number is related to the component in the User Interface
  • StandardName -> Component name that appears in the combo Normative
  • Table -> File containing the data values useful to build the component
  • FormName -> Name that appears in the combo Type
  • FormType -> Type of Groove This is the structure of a Grooves.ini file
#ID	| StandardName | Table		    |FormName|   FormType
#
1	|	UNI 4386   | Form_E_UNI.dat	|	E	 |	1
2	|	UNI 4386   | Form_F_UNI.dat	|	F	 |	2
3	|	DIN 509	   | Form_E_DIN.dat	|	E	 |	1
4	|	DIN 509	   | Form_F_DIN.dat	|	F	 |	2
5	|	DIN 509	   | Form_G_DIN.dat	|	G	 |	3
6	|	DIN 509	   | Form_H_DIN.dat	|	H	 |	4
7	|	DIN 76-1   | Form_A_DIN.dat	|	A	 |	5
8	|	DIN 76-1   | Form_B_DIN.dat	|	B	 |	5

The *.dat files, contain the fields of the standard values related to Groove normative; the structure of the files are self-explaining.

#
#DMin|	DMax     |	r	 |	t	 |	b	 |  c	 |	t1	 |  a
#
0	 |	1.6		 |	0.1	 |	0.1	 |	0.5	 |	0.8	 |	0.1	 |	0
1.6	 |	3		 |	0.2	 |	0.1	 |	1	 |	0.9	 |	0.1	 |	0
3	 |	10		 |	0.4	 |	0.2	 |	2	 |	1.1	 |	0.1	 |	0
10	 |	18		 |	0.6	 |	0.2	 |	2	 |	1.4	 |	0.1	 |	0.2
18	 |	50		 |	1	 |	0.2	 |	2.5	 |	1.8	 |	0.1	 |	0.8
50	 |	80		 |	1.6	 |	0.3	 |	4	 |	3.1	 |	0.2	 |	1.1
80	 |	125		 |	2.5	 |	0.4	 |	5	 |	4.8	 |	0.3	 |	1.9
125	 |	9999999	 |	4	 |	0.5	 |	7	 |	6.4	 |	0.3	 |	4