The Adams Machinery Gear contact based gear method lets the user easily create detailed involute gears in their Adams model. The gears are fully 3-dimensional both in terms of the gear tooth contact, but also in terms of how the pinion and gear are allowed to translate and rotate relative each other. This means that the gear pair do not need to be constrained to the same plane as for the 'simplified gear' and 'detailed spur gear' methods. The following gear types can be modelled with the contact based method:
■Spur gears (internal/external)
■Helical gears (internal/external)
■Bevel gears (external)
■Worm gears (external)
■Rack gears (external)
■Hypoid gears (external)
The Machinery Gear version uses the new faster Adams Contact Statement and take advantage of the shell to shell contact capabilities.
The name of the Contact object will be .model.MG_'Gear Name', where 'Gear Name' is the name you enter when creating the gear pair.
Note: | To modify the lash the gear(s) have to be deleted and recreated (compared to the simplified gear version where the lash is a design variable that can be modified at any time). |