Descrizione
Helical gears resemble spur gears with the teeth at an angle. They can be meshed in parallel or crossed orientations at 90 degrees or arbitrary angles and can be generated with as little as a single tooth forming a screw gear.
Gears may be specified in either the 'Normal' or the 'Radial' system or the fixed profile Sunderland standard, any of which can be generated as either Left or Right handed. Handedness in helical gears refers to the direction the teeth lean when the gear is placed flat on a table.
Using this add-in, proper Herringbone gears (such as the gears used for this add-in's thumbnail) can be created by using a Sunderland profile then mirroring the gear about one of its faces. In the case of Herringbone or other double-helix gears the handedness of the base gear is not as significant as it is for single helix gears - to effectively change the handedness of a Herringbone / double helix gear all you need to do is flip it over - whereas for a single helix gear it must be mirrored to change its handedness.
Finally, by setting a helix angle of 0 degrees, Spur gears can be created and defined in the metric system (as opposed to the sample Spur Gear script which defines gears in the American system) with this add-in.
Be sure to check out the Gear Down For What YouTube channel and on thingiverse - he is doing some amazing things with Helical Gears!
Thanks, excelent app
Works for what I need. Wish it were parametric but oh well.
And another thing: the bodies created are named "Healical Gear"... just a quick fix to line 877. ;)
I created two herringbone gear in surrender mode. first 18 tooth and second 72 tooth. they are not compatible. neither in the program nor in the 3D output.
Did you remember to make one left handed and the other right handed? Helical gears must be of opposite hands to mesh in classical gearing applications.
I really like it, quick and easy to use
Brilliant, thanks so much
Thanks a lot
This is really good, and can generate regular spur gears as well if you set the helix to 0 degrees.
THANK YOU
Great sucess using this generator to make function 3d printed gears. A requested new feature would be the option to create a tapered helical gear.
Easy to install, easy to use, perfect result - excelent! Thanks.
Thank you very much
Works pretty good!
Installer worked for MacOS without a problem.
Simple to use. Works great.
The installer still does not work for MacOS, but Ross was kind to provide a usable package by e-mail. The addon works great! Really easy to use and results are perfect.
Addendum and dadendum doesn't seem to do anything in Radial system.
Very many thanks !
Very easy to use and gave me exactly what i needed
Great gear generator.
Can this also be used to generate the gear for the inside of a ring and not just the outside?
Great add-in!
This plugin is perfect for creating herringbone gears
Thank you! Very comfortably!
Parameters are well documented and the resulting gears mesh nicely.
Haven't been able to use it since it consistently crashes Fusion 360.
This definitely makes life quite a bit easier for designing gear boxes! Only downside is that the tooth count input won't accept parameters; it just throws an error – "Teeth – must be greater than 0." – when I try to use a pre-defined parameter
Thanks for the addon
Be nice to select either metric or inch for the units. Or have it use the default units for each design. Not everyone uses metric.
Easy to use and the results are fantastic!!