where is the Design tab to make gears?

[beltloaderman]

Hi all,

I am really new to Inventor so I am going to ask some basic question. I have Inventor Pro 2014 and I want to make some gears, but not sure where the design tab is in the ribbon. I thought it might be in the ribbon when you first open a new template.

Also, I watched the videos in Infinite Skills, and I am still not sure if I am to create each individual part, or do I create the whole thing in drawing. Like right now, I am designing a gear reduction box from a tutorial that I did in TurboCAD. In TurboCAD, and in AutoCAD, I did the all the parts in one file. Is that the case in Inventor, or do I create each part individually then put it all together under a different file? It seemed that, that is the way it’s done in Inventor.

Thanks for all your help,

John

[JDMather]

You must be in the Assembly Environment to use the Gear Design Accelerator.

Start a new assembly (*.iam) file.

[beltloaderman]

Thanks so much JD,

How about my other question, the one about making a sperate file for each part, or can I do it all in one file.

Many thanks again,

John

[JDMather]

How much training have you had using Inventor?

Do you understand the difference between parts and assemblies?

Do you understand what is actually in an assembly (*.iam) file?

The gear design accelerator does create the gears as two separate part files.

It always creates pairs of gears, so if you only need one part - you can delete the other part file (if there is a chance you will edit the gear specifications - you should keep both, but only use the one.

Post your assembly here if you can't figure it out.