GearHeads Forum

One of the shortcomings of Gearotic Motion is the inability of the user to link the motions of gears to shafts or other gears
as well as position gears for a proper mesh under particular circumstances. While that may sound contradictory relative to
what GM is capable of, I will provide a picture ...

Bob:

I was being very brief in my first post, so to further expand on this there are at least two different styles of bevel gear tooth
profiles. The first type will be referred to here as straight bevel gears and the second style as parallel depth bevel gears.

In the former you can visualize the ...

Art said:

"An involute cutter wont work on a bevel as the tooth form shrinks as you approach the cone tip. Its this shrinking
involute form that usually the troublesome bit to do in a bevel."

That statement is not totally correct since wheel shaped (i.e. non-shaper) bevel gear cutters exist ...