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  1. smwdrum

    Modeling Helical and Bevel Gear Teeth- NX

    I am having trouble modeling gear teeth in NX. Spend many hours yesterday trying to get it to work. I have a .grip program but when I use the 3-D function it gives me hollow teeth that are not a solid body? you also cannot edge break the teeth then. I also tried putting them in using the...
  2. smwdrum

    Gear Calculation Shortware for Manufaturing

    My company is in gear manufacturing and common issues that come up are calculation plating thickness on splines teeth and alternate pin size measurements. I have the formulas to do this by hand and our gear engineering has a old DOS program that can do it but was wondering if there was...
  3. smwdrum

    Tolerance Stack up

    I am working on a manufacturing process and wondering when it comes to calculating tolerance stack up through the process during the turning stages what is the best way to go about it? I have read up on the Worst case method and RSS method and seams like just doing worst case is the way to go...
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    Metric Drawing?

    Looking for some help with reading this print? I have not had to much experience with metric prints, and mostly wondering about the toleranceing? Obviously you can convert the dimm. to inches but what about that tolerances? For instance it has .003 R/O on the cone, is that .003MM or what is...
  5. smwdrum

    FELLOWS STARTING POINT??

    Does anyone know how to calculate Fellows Starting Point and total Roll for a spline shaping operation?
  6. smwdrum

    Gear Data

    I have question about gear data listed in the data table on a F/P. I know you can calculate things that might not be listed in the table based on different formulas, but what about the data for Shaping and hobbing, how do you get that data based on the gear data from the F/P, are there...

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