There's no substitute for a good
software package in gear manufacturing.
It's a critical shop floor tool
that provides practical engineering services
that customers appreciate. When
you're in the business of specifying and
procuring high quality gears, the software
needs to meet many objectives including
the consideration of all tolerances of
center distance, tooth thickness and tip
diameters, root diameters, fillets, etc. It's
also imperative that the software updates
include the latest revisions to the gear
standards being used in the industry.
Developed here is a new method to automatically find the optimal topological modification from the predetermined measurement grid points for bevel gears. Employing this method
enables the duplication of any flank form of a bevel gear given by the measurement points and the creation of a 3-D model for CAM machining in a very short time. This method not only
allows the user to model existing flank forms into 3-D models, but also can be applied for various other purposes, such as compensating for hardening distortions and manufacturing deviations which are very important issues but not yet solved in the practical milling process.