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Tutorial - Making a helical gear in AutoCAD?

By Sudhir Gill on 07 Feb 06:55 2 answers 3016 views 2 comments

Tutorial on making helical gear in AutoCAD 2011.

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  • Sudhir Gill
    Sudhir Gill over 1 year ago

    Here is the tutorial

    1. Step 1

      Start AutoCAD.

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    2. Step 2

      Make a circle of 35mm radius at center.

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    3. Step 3

      Make another circle of 50mm concentric to previous one.

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    4. Step 4

      Make two arcs like this one for cutting teeth.

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    5. Step 5

      Trim down the circles. Now enter PEDIT command.

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    6. Step 6

      Right click on the screen and select multiple.

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    7. Step 7

      Select all arcs.

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    8. Step 8

      Press enter and keep the input Y and press enter.

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    9. Step 9

      Now click on the join.

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    10. Step 10

      Press Enter.

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    11. Step 11

      Now we can see that it has become a polyline.

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    12. Step 12

      Enter helix command.

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    13. Step 13

      Enter the radius value of (0,35). Any other value will distort the sweep. Keep the default value for the upper radius. Press Enter.

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    14. Step 14

      Now select turns and enter a value of 0.15.

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    15. Step 15

      Now enter a height of 50mm. We have helix path generated which will later be used for cutting the teeth.

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    16. Step 16

      Create a circle of 50mm with origin as center.

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    17. Step 17

      Extrude it by 25mm.

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    18. Step 18

      Enter SWEEP command.

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    19. Step 19

      Select the polyline to sweep and press enter.

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    20. Step 20

      Right click and select alignment.

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    21. Step 21

      Select No.

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    22. Step 22

      Again right click and select twist.

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    23. Step 23

      Keep the default values and press enter. Now select the helix as the sweep path.

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    24. Step 24

      We have one cut body generated.

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    25. Step 25

      Now enter array command.

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    26. Step 26

      Select array type polar and enter origin as center for array. Click select object and select the sweep. Now enter the no. of items be 10. Click OK.

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    27. Step 27

      Subtract the arrayed sweeps from the cylindrical body and we have the helical gear created.

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  • rockroad
    rockroad 5 months ago

    good I finished the job by 2008 thanks

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