GearHeads Forum

Hi,
Wondering if meshing helicals can have different angles,
i.e. One gear with 30 deg and the other with 60 deg to achieve a 90 deg shaft angel.
GM lets me put in different angles but GT does not.
Hard to tell from the simulation whether they would work or not, would they ?

they look really nice,
what sort off tolerance gap do you use between parts ?.

Hi,
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Hi, a couple of bugs,

If you reverse the orientation of a bevel its rotation reverses also, making it turn opposite to its shaft.
Changing colours of gears does not get saved.

Can escapements have there direction of rotation changed, not sure if i am missing it.

I still cannot take snapshots or ...

Very nice;
what machine are they printed on ?

Hi,
Am i right in thinking that a pendulums working length is from its
pivot to its center of mass, rather than pivot to end.

Thanks for the answers,
on looking again more closely could not find my "imagined" gears,

But interesting to think that with the advances in 3D printing, many things
that we accept as standards, partly came about due to manufacturing limitations,
and now we need to go back and reinvent.

Hi, just a little confused over helical gears,
Are there two ways to to make them ?.

I made a simplified image to show what i mean.

The top gear is what GT outputs, and has a sort of twist in the
teeth from rotating all the bottom by the same amount.

the bottom one everything is parallel, from ...

Thanks Art,
now having new problem, I think probably due to me doing thinks wrong,
after creating a train of gears I realised I had a link in the wrong place,
so i deleted the shaft hoping to then create a new shaft in the right place.
the old shaft is deleted, but the gears that were connected to ...

Hi,
i am getting a problem with the latest version where if i open a project file it adds it to
the project i have on screen instead of swapping it...if you get what i mean. i have to close
the program and start again.

On the subject of docking the properties windows, i am mainly using a wide ...