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Art,

Here is another paper on spiral bevel gear generation and inspection.

http://gear-net.com/report/rep-03.html

Also Klingelnberg method is in a spread sheet with macros that create tooth form for Solid Works IGES inport.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WdPTxinZk

Chuck in Wyoming

Art,

I was looking for a diversion from a rather tricky embedded processor project.

The intersecting rack rotates as the bevel rotates, this complicates the rack generating method but it should still work. Rotate the gear to the next involute shaving angle and calculate the end points. The ...

I was thinking about this program and one thing I may need to address is whole depth vs working depth and clearance.

If the cutting tool is a true rack tooth form with NO clearance the program will make nice involute gears. BUT without clearance at the bottom.

If the cutting tool has the clearance ...

Years ago I wrote a DOS program to calculate the dividing head settings and Y offset to simulate a HOB.

I am stuck inside with a bad cold on a WONDERFUL fall day and spent the last 2 hours converting the old DOS program into a G code generating 4 axis CNC windows based program.

The program uses a ...

Art,

Wood Gearblank

This is a FREE Windows program I wrote to create G code file to mill PIE shaped wood segments.
The segments are then glued up into any size gear blank. The G code from your program then is used to mill the finished gear.

Here is Alpha version 0.13. Everything I have tested is ...