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Experimenting with a 0.4 module 10 tooth pinion.

I suspect the cuts are going to be OK but the simulation has them misplaced relative to the image of the finished gear



see attached screen which also shows tool parameters.

John Prentice

In tangential shaving I tend to cheat by using a "false" gear thickness to minimise cutting air during the to and fro X motion.

Even with a width that makes the cutter fully form the tooth for each tangential pass one hits trouble when moving from the upward facing face to the adjacent downward ...

In tangential shaving I tend to cheat by using a "false" gear thickness to minimise cutting air during the to and fro X motion.

Even with a width that makes the cutter fully form the tooth for each tangential pass one hits trouble when moving from the upward facing face to the adjacent downward ...

Cutting clock gears with thin slitting saws is very promising but the segmentation is hard to optimize. Too high a segmentation impacts cutting time badly. Here is a closeup with segmentation of 8

http://www.castlewoodconsultants.com/Misc/RoughingPasses.jpg

showing ridges that will impact ...