Hello,
I’d like to add fillet radii to only the base of all the teeth (300 teeth for the main gear, 60 teeth for the pinion) that I have generated using the gearGen(RhinoV4).rvb script. I tried Fillet Curves but it put a radius on all corners. I tried Fillet Repeat but would rather not manually repeat those steps for every tooth.
Is there some way to do this? Thanks in advance.
I don’t know much about scripting so I can’t offer any advice in that area. But what I would normally do, is fillet one like you have already done. And delete everything but 1 tooth, and 1 valley. Then arraypolar to get your desired gear back.
Thank you ra-mull. I’ll try that.
You can also try this:
- draw a circle centered in your gear and intersecting with the ‘teeth’
- explode gear curve
- Use SelBoundary with the Crossing option and use the intersecting circle as your selection boundary
- Join selected teeth bases
- FilletCorners
- Join back all original gear curves.
hth,
Jarek
I just realized you need the base kept as-is and the teeth filleted - in that case use SelBoundary as “Window”, not “Crossing”, and invert selection before Join,FilletCorners…
Delete all the teeth except one.
Fillets where needed.
Array polar.
Thank you all!
I tried ra_mull’s suggestion which Marc also suggested and it seemed to work well. I have yet to extrude the surface but don’t anticipate any problems.
Thank you for all your suggestions.