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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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OakLD wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2018 5:25 pm Thank you, this tool has option for external and internal teeth. However, the "High precision" option doesn't do anything aparent to
Maybe it's just your 3D view display tessellation settings. Default is 0.5% which will approximate curves with straight line segments.
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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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NormandC wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2018 6:37 pm Maybe it's just your 3D view display tessellation settings. Default is 0.5% which will approximate curves with straight line segments.
Thank you for your suggestion. Do you mean Edit --> Preferences : Part Design Section : Shape View Tab : "Maximum deviation depending on the bounding box" with default value 0.5%? What is a "correct" value to get proper shape? I tried also 0,05% and 0,5% including FreeCAD restart and see no progress.

Since I'm on RealThunder's line of FC builds (0.8.3), I also tried "factory" FC16, which I also have on my machine. Both give me exactly same bad result :(.

EDIT: I think it's not the display issue only. It came to my mind, that I can export the shape to DXF; I then opened the DXF in DraftSight and I can see the tooth sides are really formed by 3 lines each.
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Perhaps I do something wrong or have a wrong setting, but I don't know where to look to fix it...

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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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OakLD wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:27 pm Since I'm on RealThunder's line of FC builds (0.8.3), I also tried "factory" FC16, which I also have on my machine. Both give me exactly same bad result :(.
realthunder's fork is very different than the main FreeCAD repo. Can you recreate the issues you are reporting on 0.17 and 0.18dev?
FYI, realthunder's fork is currently on 0.8.6
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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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Kunda1 wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:36 pm realthunder's fork is very different than the main FreeCAD repo. Can you recreate the issues you are reporting on 0.17 and 0.18dev?
FYI, realthunder's fork is currently on 0.8.6
Sure I'll try. I have 0.17 on my W7 machine, I'll test it there on Wednesday. I'll try to install 0.17 on this W10 machine and test it (not tonight). I perhpas could test it on my OpenSuSE Leap 0.43 machine, depending on that I could get functional SUSE executables of 0.17 release or build it without issues.

Ooops, I've got the latest (0.8.6), just messed up the numbering... Sorry.
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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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Oooops :mrgreen:
I see that I have an approximation:
Fc in his great wisdom has provided gears with internal teeth, and clicking "external = false, we have the internal teeth
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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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OK, everywhere same result. W7 tested over remote desktop, but that shouldn't matter...


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So there's something with my FC settings or system configuration or something wrong between keyboard and the chair :-).
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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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Can you please share your file?
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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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meme2704 wrote: Sun Sep 30, 2018 1:26 pm
know this is an old thread.

But I want to emphasize, that if you substract involute gear from a cylinder you DON'T get valid involute inner teeth.
I did it yesterday, but it was too quick thinkging. The result could be acceptable for some info graphics, but certainly not e.g. for 3D printing a real gear.

I think, that at this moment, the only way is to take an engineering handbook and draw a precise sketch to base the gear with inner teeth on...
Complete Fake news, you do not know anything about machining pinion, look at my answer 2 post above :!: :!: :mrgreen:
Let's try to keep a more respectful tone, please.

Also not a gear expert, but I think the internal/external spur gear difference is a little more than just terminology (and, I am sure that "external" in this context means "spur that has the teeth pointing out" - the Part Design tool is the right way around). The addendum of one becomes the dedendum of the other, obviously, and the involute parameters will be the same. But, I think as a practical matter you'd not want to specify the root radius of the internal gear, by making a rounded tooth tip of an internal gear, then inverting it... Often the internal gear has to have different dimensions to prevent the tips of teeth from interfering, and that sort of thing too.

That said, looo has made a rather nice gear workbench: https://github.com/looooo/FCGear

As to the "bug" - mine looks fine when I ensure that the visualisation deviation is low enough:

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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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OakLD wrote: Mon Oct 01, 2018 9:27 pm It came to my mind, that I can export the shape to DXF; I then opened the DXF in DraftSight and I can see the tooth sides are really formed by 3 lines each.
Exporting to DXF is not a got choice to evaluate curves data.
Please see here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=31280

Better will be using Info tool from CurvesWB.

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Re: Planetary Gear Inner Gear

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UR_ wrote: Wed Oct 03, 2018 11:40 am Exporting to DXF is not a got choice to evaluate curves data.
Please see here: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=31280

Better will be using Info tool from CurvesWB.
I'm going to learn something new :-).

But if it is a screen and DXF processing issue, I still may need to export correct object in DXF or STEP later. And as for now, the DXF is wrong too and I have no idea what is causing the issue.
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