FCGear InvoluteRack

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FCGear InvoluteRack

Menu location
FCGear → Create an Involute rack
Workbenches
FCGear
Default shortcut
None
Introduced in version
v0.16
See also
FCGear InvoluteGear

Description

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Gear racks are used to convert a rotary motion into a linear motion or vice versa. The following examples show the different applications:

  • A rack with gear on at a retaining weir.
  • Various rack systems of rack-and-pinion railways.
  • Rack and pinion steering in a vehicle.
  • Rack and pinion winch as mechanical hoist (e.g. car jack).

From left to right: Spur gearing, helical gearing, double helical gearing

Properties

Data

Base

  • DataPlacement: Placement is the location and orientation of an object in space.
  • DataLabel: User name of the object in the Tree view.

computed

  • Datatransverse_pitch: Pitch in the transverse plane – not changeable, is calculated automatically (see also the information in Note).

gear_parameter

  • Dataadd_endings: If True, than the total length of the rack is teeth * pitch, otherwise the rack starts with a tooth-flnak.
  • Databeta: With the helix angle β a helical gear is created (positive value → rotation direction right, negative value → rotation direction left).
  • Dataclearance: Default is 0,25 (see also the information in Note).
  • Datadouble_helix: True creates a double helix gear (see also the information in Note)
  • Datahead: Default is 0,00. This value is used to change the tooth height.
  • Dataheight: Value for the gear width.
  • Datamodule: Module is the ratio of the reference diameter of the gear divided by the number of teeth (see also the information in Note).
  • Dataproperties_from_tool: If helix angle β is given and properties_from-tool is enabled, gear parameters are internally recomputed for the rotated gear.
  • Datasimplified: True generates a simplified display (without teeth and only a cylinder in pitch diameter).
  • Datateeth: Number of teeth
  • Datathickness: Height from the tooth root to the lower side of the rod.

involute_parameter

  • Datapressure_parameter: Default is 20 (see also the information in Note).

View

The parameter descriptions of the View tab will be found in Property editor, further below at Example of the properties of a PartDesign object.

Notes

  • transverse_pitch: The value is the result of multiplication of Module * Pi. See also module further below..
  • clearance: At a gear pair, clearance is the distance between the tooth tip of the first gear and the tooth root of the second gear.
  • double_helix: To use the double helical gearing the helix angle β (beta) for the helical gearing must first be entered.
  • module: Using ISO (International Organization for Standardization) guidelines, Module size is designated as the unit representing gear tooth-sizes. Module (m): m = 1 (p = 3.1416), m = 2 (p = 6.2832), m = 4 (p = 12.566). If you multiply Module by Pi, you can obtain Pitch (p). Pitch is the distance between corresponding points on adjacent teeth. The result of the multiplication is displayed in transverse_pitch
  • pressure_parameter: Only change the parameter, if sufficient knowledge of the gear geometry is available.

Limitations

No limitations are known.