Gear Generator

[Anonymous]

Does Fusion 360 currently have any way to easily generate involute spur gears?

From what I understand a gear generator was being discussed a year or so back, and seemed to be nearly ready for incorporation, but I haven't seen anything since.

Besides wanting to print gears, I would like to be able to resolve gear problems when I'm making gears conventionally (ie the dimensions reguired for cutting, or determining the gear specifications based on known dimensions).

Other than conventional spur gears, the increasing popularity of 3D printing opens up the possibility of using superior, but previously difficult to conventionally machine, gears in projects. Therefore if they were also possible to easily generate that would be great.

Sorry if this function already exists, and if so I would be grateful if I could be guided to the appropriate section to use it.

Thanks

[gwcude]

Here is a link to the most recent thread I found on the Gear Script that has been discussed.  There is a link in this thread to download the script.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/api-and-scripts/gear-script-problem/td-p/5441876

[Anonymous]

Thanks very much. I'm using Macs but will still try that later tonight.

[ADSKDJW4]

@Anonymous ,

There was some information from the other post regarding an issue with Macs, see below.

"That script is using tkinter for its GUI.  Unfortunately, on the Mac, there is an incompatibility with tkinter and Qt used by the Fusion host process.  So far, we have been unsuccessful in getting tkinter to behave in the Fusion process on the Mac.  We are definitely still very interested in getting tkinter to work on the Mac, but right now there is no workaround to get this to work."

Just an FYI if you run into issues,

Regards,

Don Warner

[Anonymous]

Ok from what I understand this doesn't work with Macs? I'm not a computer guy, so I could well be mistaken.

That being the case, I would definitely like to be able to generate gears as a function within Fusion. It doesn't strike me as being particularly difficult to impliment, but I guess that's easy for me to say! While I've traditionally cut gears, I'm keen to now try printing them. Indeed, while I've seen such things as FIA etc mooted for Fusion, and that would be great, personally I would much rather see implimented a menu of mechanical objects available that can be customised to suit the project at hand, and assembled to form a working model.

[bob_holland]

pfleming,

Thank you for your interest in utilizing Fusion 360 to build gears.

I suggest that you post your request for support of Gears on the Mac platform on our Fusion IdeaStation:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation-request-a/idb-p/125

This information is reviewed and voted on by users.

Product management uses this information for purposes of future development

Thank you again for using Fusion 360.

[charegb]

Hi Everyone,

The API sample included with Fusion works on Windows and Mac. There was a fancier UI sample posted to the forum that only works on Win but the regular script works on both platforms.

You can also look at the McMaster catelog and use gears from their site directly inside Fusion.

Thanks,

Bankim

[Anonymous]

Sorry I don't mean to sound ungrateful, however the script is of novelty value and would not be suitable for producing actual gears directly from it.

I have been unable to find any CAD information associated with any of the gears sold by McMaster that I have checked, and would be grateful for links to the information you refer to.

[HughesTooling]

If you work in mm I've figured out to get gears using module divide the module by 25.4 then divide by 2.54. So if you want a 1.25 module gear with 10 teeth it's (25.4/1.25)/2.54 = 8. The gear generated will have an OD of 15mm and the pitch diameter will be 1.25x10.

Mark.