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Gear Macro Geometry

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Gear Macro Geometry

➢ Manage and optimise alternative gear set designs

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Gear Sets

Selected Gear Set Properties

Load Cases & Duty Cycles

Tabs

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Show analysis results for the selected load case or duty cycle. The results are from the Power Flow analysis

Edit the selected gear set design. Default editor is the same as the one in Design mode

Tabs

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Create Custom CAD Reports

View a report of the selected gear set’s geometry

Tabs

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View Drawings of the selected gear set

View advanced calculations on spiral bevel and hypoid gear sets

Tabs

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View contribution of different load cases to total gear damage

View a report of ‘scuffing’ analysis on cylindrical gear sets

Tabs

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Explore geometry search space

Alternative Designs

➢ Right click on a Gear Set to create a duplicate. This can then be modified to explore alternative geometries

➢ Design with the tick is the “Active Design”. This will be used in detailed analyses

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Optimise a design automatically

➢ Right click on a gear set and choose “Optimise Strength”

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Targets

Constraints

Press to run

Results

Optimise a design automatically

➢ Right click on a result and choose “Add To Design” to accept the design and add it to your model

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Optimise a design manually

➢ You can position the tabs side by side and modify the parameters to see the effect on the results

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Try changing Face Width

Next task…

➢ Please now work through the document:

6.Efficiency

➢ The next slide in this document contains some additional tasks you might want to attempt after completing all the other tutorials

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Tasks

➢ Try and create a design with safety factors as high as the automatically optimised design

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