Any good tutorials on BEVEL gear design in SU?

jgb

I need to design several sizes of bevel gears for a working model that will be 3D printed.

Quite frankly, all the design tools I have found are for Excel, Fusion or Solidworks or detailed engineering that now baffle my 80 year old brain.

Are there any good simple tutorials based on Sketchup (2015) that will produce a simple gear tooth profile out there?

The gears range from 16 mm diam to 270 mm diam. All are 90 deg bevel. None subject to strong forces.

Or, I can define each of the 6 different sized gears and someone gear savvy among you could graciously design for me. If so, I'll post here the SU file of the gear train and any other details one might need.

I only need the tooth design. Hopefully the same shape can be used for all 6 gears. The gear hubs I have covered.

Thanks, jgb

Rich O Brien

Did you try SPGears?

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Dave R

As Rich suggests, SPGears is a good option. If you can use standard bevel gears you might check manufacturers and suppliers for files you can use in SketchUp. For example I got a STEP file for the gear shown here from McMaster-Carr which I imported into SketchUp using the Universal Importer available in the ExtensionStore. The result can easily be modified for the shaft it needs to fit and so on.

bevel gear.png

Since you are modeling for 3D printing, do the modeling in meters to avoid issues with tiny faces.

Couldn't help but do a little playing while avoiding work I should do.
Bevel Gear.png