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Involute Spur Gear Builder

The document describes the 7 step process for building an involute spur gear: 1. Roll a trapezoidal cutter and collect polygon paths to cut the tooth shape. 2. Add additional paths from the addendum corner to smoothly cover the undercut area. 3. Union all polygons to create the tooth cutter shape. 4. Intersect the tooth cutter with a half-tooth triangle to create the tooth path. 5. Simplify the path and trim intersections with the outer circle. 6. Mirror the path to create the full gear. 7. The inner gear follows similar steps but connects points to avoid ragged edges when rolling the cutter.

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Involute Spur Gear Builder

The document describes the 7 step process for building an involute spur gear: 1. Roll a trapezoidal cutter and collect polygon paths to cut the tooth shape. 2. Add additional paths from the addendum corner to smoothly cover the undercut area. 3. Union all polygons to create the tooth cutter shape. 4. Intersect the tooth cutter with a half-tooth triangle to create the tooth path. 5. Simplify the path and trim intersections with the outer circle. 6. Mirror the path to create the full gear. 7. The inner gear follows similar steps but connects points to avoid ragged edges when rolling the cutter.

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Involute Spur Gear Builder

Dr. Rainer Hessmer, 9/12/2020

Regular Gear

Step 1:
Roll trapezoidal cutter and collect the paths (polygons):

Step 2
Create an additional path from the addendum corner of the cutter in the various positions (see
red circles in figure below). Join the corners as a polygon. This ensures the undercut area is
smoothly covered:
Step 3:
Union all these polygons to create the ‘tooth cutter’:

Step 4
Create the intersection between the tooth cutter and the half-tooth triangle to create the half
tooth path:

The lowest two points of the cutter shape will need to be brought onto the outer radius circle.
They currently lie outside the circle:
Step 5
Simplify (lighten the path) to remove points that are not needed to achieve the desired accuracy.

Step 6
Calculate the intersections with the outer circle and create the trimmed path,

Step 7
Mirror the path and combine both the original and mirrored path.

Inner Gear

Step 1
Create the matching pinion gear but with flipped clearance and backlash so that it can be used
as the cutter of the inner gear.

Step 2
Roll the generated pinion shaped cutter to create various cutout paths:
Just unioning these would result in ragged edges (see left top part in the image):

Step 3
To avoid the ragged edges we can creates shapes by connecting corresponding points in the
rolled cutter shapes (the blue shapes in the image below):

The shapes are more clearly distinguishable without the the cutter paths:
Just unioning these is not enough either.

Step 4
Union all the shapes from step 2 with all the shapes from step 3 to get a smooth overall shape.

The remaining steps are essentially identical to the steps described for the regular gear starting
with ​step 4​.

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