Gear Animation

[angusstevenson123]

Hello,

I have what is probably an easy one.........

I am simply trying to get two gears spinning beside each other. ie......if one gear spins - then the other gear reacts and spins the other way.

I've sifted through online tutorials - but if anyone can hep me cut straight to the chase - that would be great!

All help appreciated.

Thankyou

Angus

[TrippyLighting]

You could try a contact set. The better method to do this, however, is a motion link.

[angusstevenson123]

Thanks - any chance you could post a video of how to do this.........or a bit more of a break down of the steps involved.

Thanks - Angus

[TrippyLighting]

Here's a little screencast showing the version with the Contact Set. I'll work on the other method while you try out this one.

Make sure your "parts" are components 😉

[angusstevenson123]

Oh WOW - thankyou very much!

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

Here's the same thing with a motion link between the revolute joints that the gears are assembled with to the base plate.

Feel free to click on Kudos and "Acccept as Solution" 😉

[angusstevenson123]

Trippy Lightening - thankyou very much for the time you put into this solution. It cuts straight to the chase of what I was after. Thanks again - Angus

[arie.dv]

That works great for equal sized gears. How do you make it work when there is a ratio between the gears? eg 1:4 16t driving a 64t. In my case both gears complete one revolution, instead 4 revolutions driving one revolution.

Regards. Arie.

[HughesTooling]

You just put the ratio in to the motion link. Demo file attached.

Mark

Edit. I just realised you can break that down to 1 to 2.5 and  1 to 1 for the small gears, wasn't thinking it through when I set it up the fist time.