Welcome to Adams Machinery Gear
Adams Machinery Gear is used to create simplified or detailed representations of involute gears in Adams View. The following gear types can be created: Cylindrical (spur/helical and internal/external), bevel (straight/spiral), hypoid, worm and rack & pinion.
Adams Machinery Gear creates gear forces as well as gear geometry. The gear force and the gear geometry are added to, and act between, existing Adams Parts (Bodies) created by Adams Machinery Gear. The gear forces can modeled with a simplified analytical method or a full 3D contact method. Spur gears also have a detailed analytical method.
Note: | Currently a maximum of 200 gear parts (100 gear pairs) is allowed per model. |
Benefits of Machinery Gear
Adams Machinery Gear enables you to work faster and smarter with gears – automating the creation of geometry and providing both an efficient analytical contact method and a detailed 3D shell-to-shell contact method. It also provides a convenient wizard to automate the creation of planetary gear sets.
The following methods for defining the gear pair contact are available:
■Simplified: the contact forces are calculated analytically and assume mostly planar behavior of the gear pair; this method solves much faster than the 3D contact method.
■Detailed (spur gears only): the contact forces are calculated analytically by using the involute function (which describes the tooth profile) and the contact properties specified by the user; this method solves much faster than the 3D contact method.
■3D Contact: the contact forces are calculated by using standard Adams View shell-to-shell 3D Contact modeling. Out-of-plane motion of the gears is better captured with this method than the simplified and detailed method.
■Advanced 3D Contact: this scalability enables one to apply Advanced 3D gear from conceptual design up to optimization.
Note: | Modelling of Adams Machinery Gear Simplified/Detailed/3D Contact/Advanced 3D methods requires Adams_Machinery_Gear_GUI license. Advance 3D method will require Adams_ViewFlex license along with Adams_Machinery_Gear_GUI license. Whereas simulation of Gear Simplified/Detailed/Advanced 3D method requires Adams_Machinery_Gear_Solver license. |