Creating gears in Inventor with the Spur Gear Design Accelerator
Inventor’s Design Accelerators allow you to specify, calculate and generate gearing for a variety of different solutions, such as spur, worm, and bevel. In this recipe, we will calculate and generate two meshing spur gears on two shafts that have already been defined in an assembly.
Getting ready
To begin this recipe, open SpurGear.iam
from the Chapter 8
folder in Inventor
Cookbook 2023
.
How to do it…
Ensure that SpurGear.iam
is open in Inventor. Within this assembly file, two shafts have been created and are visible in the assembly. A plate that the shafts interface with is also present. The wider context of the design is not contained within this assembly.
We will start by defining the location of the two meshing spur gears on the existing shafts:
- Select the Design tab. Navigate to the Power Transmission panel and select Spur Gear:
Figure 8.47: Spur Gear...