GearHeads Forum

HI,

Basic newbie question. I am trying to create an escapement (lever and metric measures) but I cannot find how to set the face width to the value of 2 I want. Instead it always generates as a default of 5 - how do I change this?

Thanks
Chris

Hi Art,

I am probably doing something dumb but I would appreciate some help. I am trying to cut a 0.6M epicycloidal gear 72 tooth - no spokes.

When I select the gear and then go to output manager, tick 4th axis, y parallel and go I get the param file and text file but no tap file.

Any suggestions ...

Thanks for the advice.

I trolled through all the posts on the 6040 and it seems to be common that it will lose steps which explains so many faults I have had. Became very evident when trying to cut a 1.6 mm gear with a 0.8mm cutter - had the bepth per pass set to 0.2mm and by about the 4th pass it ...

The point distance is set to 0.25 in metric.

Oh and yes the thornton and the gearotic are epicycloidal (D'oh)

Thanks
Chris

Thanks everyone your help is appreciated.

I have attached a close up of the spoked gear - btw it was cut with a 0.8 end mill.

The router is a chinese 6040.

Hi,

I am building a grandfather clock in brass. I have been trying to use a cnc router with gearotic and occasionally a conventional gear cutting engine using a P&P Thornton cutter.

The wheels in the pictures attached with the spokes are the cnc ones and the solid ones from the thornton (an ...

Hi,

I am trying to use a cnc milling machine with a 4th axis to cut brass clock gears. When I post a gcode with 4th axis and involute selected it says to set the machine up with the tool at the top of the workpiece. Ideally I want to set it up with an involute cutter on an arbor in the mill spindle ...