involute gear tooth tool

[asmenor]

It'd be great to have an included tool (like the ones for making fillets, chamfers, and threading) that would add involute gear teeth and allow the user to go back and edit the properties or number of gear teeth later.

[vaclav_prchlik]

I clearly see the need. Please would you take a look at Gear Tool proposal video (http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Fusion-360-IdeaStation-Request-a/Bolted-Connection-for-Fusion/idc-p/48... Would that help? I would really welcome any suggestions.

Thanks,

Vasek 

[CurdZechmeister]

Vasek, 

I am not sure how far you have gotten with the Gear Tool but I personally could use this right now. I find drawing gears in Fusion 360 very difficult and working and re-working gears without a generator tools is a real pain. If you have already finished this tool can you please let me know where I could find it?

Thank You

CZ 

[ItinerantProf]

I agree that a gear making tool would be greatly useful. Any progress on this tool?

thanks, Bill Havens

[jodom4]

I would also love to have a Gear Tool. I'm having to dig up my PC and do my gears in Inventor, when I'd much rather do the whole process on my Mac in Fusion.

[schneik-adsk]

In the short term check out the script to create spur gears in the September update.

[roambotics_scott]

Thanks definitely something but it only seems to work for external spur gears not internal gears and it'd be very useful to be able to have some UI to align those to cylindrical surfaces.

..I won't be holding my breath for helical or herringbone 🙂

[phazaar]

Seems to be a fair few reposts of this idea. It's a necessity in my mind.

[fritz_chile]

hi! iam using the script that comes with fusion, but i have a lot of problems doing basic things, any update?

[roambotics_scott]

Sorry @fritz_chile I don't think so 😞

@schneik-adsk - I'd really like to clear the «solution provided» flag here. This idea has 20 votes. I'm sure there are others that are basically the same thing with more votes.

This is kinda a big deal for a lot of people.

Whatever happened to that demo video ? That actually looked like it was heading in the right direction and it's over two years old now IIRC.

[geogod2066]

I believe that adding a tool like this would greatly benefit the Autodesk and CAD community. Right now I use the Autodesk Inventor gear tool to create gears, but it is a hassle to export and import files and such to continue a design. 

[HughesTooling]

Have you tried the gear script that come with Fusion? Or are you making something non standard?

Mark

[geogod2066]

I have tried using he tool, but I find the my previous method using
inventor more effective so I'm still using that instead of the built in tool

[HughesTooling]

Have you tried it lately, it was updated a while ago and works a lot better than the old version.

Mark

[geogod2066]

I have tried to use it however, the tool lacks the ability to easily mesh
gears and place gears based on center points. I have to joint the gears to
two center points on a body and then scale them in order for them to mesh
correctly.

[HughesTooling]

Sounds like you are making custom gears that fit a predefined pitch, that's a bit more of challenge. Are you working in mm or inches? It's not difficult to work out the module for a given centre distance given the number of teeth on each gear, it's just the centre distance divided by the total teeth on both gears divided by 2.

Here's an example of how you can set up parameters to calculate the Module, you can even enter the parameter Module in the gear dialog. I't not parametric after the gear's drawn.

( CentreDistance / 1 mm ) / ( ( Gear1Teath + Gear2Teeth ) / 2 )

Mark

[HughesTooling]

If you're working in inches change the gear dialog to Metric and use the parameters below.

( Distance / 1 mm ) / ( ( Gear1Teeth + Gear2Teeth ) / 2 )

Mark

[brighamanimator]

(This is a great thread!) I've been using the plugin FMGear in Fusion360. It's excellent, pretty flexible, but what I need at the moment is an involute gear design, ('pointier teeth' basically) which does not seem possible with FMGear. If anyone has any suggestions I'd greatly appreciate it.