Centerline Bisector misses center point

[dennis]

See the attachment for clarification.

I have a gear tooth circular array.  In the IPT all measurements are exactly correct.  When I bring it over to the IDW documentation environment, I seem to be having a problem making use of the Centerline Bisector of each tooth.  In the first image i show how the angles all are equal in value from tooth to tooth, but the bisector centerline is off on some of the teeth.  The second image shows how the centerlines generated via the bisector tool do not pass through the center point.

Have I found a bug, or am I missing something?

[mcgyvr]

Just post the ipt..

[Cadmanto]

I agree, post the part.  My first thoughts are did you pattern the teeth around the center?

Did you create this part yourself?  The software has to be thinking the teeth are not square with the center to give you results like that.

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[dennis · Accepted solution]

Thanks y'all.

I didn't want to post the part if there was an obvious problem in the model, so I reexamined.  I found that if I suppressed the undercut on each side of the teeth, then the angles held true.  The undercut had been sketched on one side of the tooth and then mirrored over.  When I actually sketched the other side, not relying on the mirror, it all worked.

Thanks for prompting me to take a deeper look.