I need to create a rack gear edge on surfaces. This illustration shows the profile I need on top of one of the surfaces.
In this case wirecut or extrude and subtract would do it. However, I have edges of various shapes that need a gear edge cut into them. I have found several gear solutions to straight edges but none for curves.
Any ideas on how to approach this?
Hi @miano,
You can create a straight rack profile and use Flow along Curve (_Flow) to fit it to a different shape:
The help file entry on Flow along Curve will help with your choice of options.
Regards
Jeremy
Thanks, I have been able to do some of the curves so far. Still struggling with others.
I have gotten this to work on the flat surfaces but am having problems on the curved. Any ideas how to make radial cut?
Problem Gear.zip (538.3 KB)What wirecut settings did you use? Have not been able to get wirecut to work at all?
What I did get to work was to straighten the polysrf, cutout the gears, then use flow to curve the polysrf back to its original shape.
just set the direction in X and then drag in -y
The edges get more complex for this problem. How might I approach this:
I have a truncated cone (in blue) The upper truncation is curved. Using FLOW as suggested I have created a scalloped edge at the top (you can ignored the inner shape).
Now I need to create a scallop shape that lies along the cone with the teeth going down.
The shape I need to create is then a cone with the bottom edge scalloped.
In in the real word, the outward scallop and the downward scallop would be an L-Bar wrapped around the cone with teeth cut into it.
(I also need to create similar scalloped L at the bottom.)
Hi @miano - Take a look at the two clips attached. Does this help?
