GearHeads Forum

I also notice the difference between the tooth thickness of the STL and the printed gear.
The printed gear is not only larger, the teeth are thick.
Is there a way to adjust the tooth thickness?  Make then thin so when the printer expands them they turn out right?

I'm designing parts in Cubex Invent.
I'd like to import parts designed in GM.
Cubex Invent supports STEP, IGES, SAT or Solidworks formatted files.
Can GM or GT do these?
Does anyone know of tools that can convert any of the export formats into one of the above formats?

I've designed a spur gear system in GM
I used GT to open the system and export the gears to STL
I opened the STL files in the Cubex Printer Driver. It looks good at this point. The shaft part is a hole.
I tell the printer driver to build the print (Slice the STL) and it builds a gear with a filled ...

I know I can export a gear design to STL, is there a way to export to any of the following formats?
STEP, IGES, SAT or Solidworks.
The CAD software called Invent that builds STL print objects can import any of the above formats.
Thanks!

I'm attempting to print a planetary gear system
The wheel is about 1.8 inches with 30 teeth, the 5 inner gears are all 10 teeth.
When the printer prints the gears with a resolution of .25mm, the gears are thicker than the design.
They end up not meshing because of the resolution capabilities of the ...