GearTrax

GearTrax™ provides the designer with an easy to use tool for creating solid models of drive components. Create spur, helical, straight bevel and involute splines with true involute tooth profiles.

GearTrax™ is intuitively easy to use for the designer with limited gear experience yet powerful enough for the gear expert. The animation window shows the spur/helical gear mesh which updates as the data is changed. It is extremely useful in understanding how changes to the gear parameters reflects on the gear mesh.

GearTrax™ is more than a library program. Each part model is created with it's specific requirements just as a designer would, but rather than taking hours or days, the part is created in seconds. GearTrax creates solid models of spur and helical gears, bevel gears, worm gears, involute splines, timing belt pulleys, chain sprockets and V-belt pulleys. GearTrax™ also integrates with Excel to create data sheets.

Features: Intuitive and simple, yet powerful! Diametral and Module pitches International standards supported Plastic gear standards True involute tooth profiles Automatic addendum modification User control of all gear properties Mounting hubs and counter bores ANSI and BS metric keyway options Very affordable

Point and Click to Create: Spur and Helical Gears Internal Gear Sets Bevel Gear Sets Worm Gears Involute Splines Timing Belt Pulleys Chain Sprockets V-Belt Pulleys 100's of Mounting Styles

Some important information about GearTrax Involute splines.What are involute splines?Involute splines are commonly used to attach a gear to a shaft. Normally, involute splines are made in pairs, an external spline and an internal spline. Internal gears. Creating internal gear sets has been improved with GearTrax.It is easy to create a set of gears, one internal and one pinion gear as a matched set. A spur gear tooth and involute spline tooth geometry can now be added to any sketch in SolidWorks.This makes it very easy to add gear teeth to any part or multiple teeth geometry to a single part. Spur and helical gear teeth are cut-extruded rather than the tooth feature boss-extruded on a base feature. A number of customers asked for this so they could suppress the tooth pattern and still have the gear "blank" to check for interference. Also, some thought it would nice if the gear model more resembled the manufacturing process. Adding mates to GearTrax products is now much simpler.All products are created with the center of the gear, pulley etc., being on a plane.In other words, the length of the belt or chain center will now be centered on a plane.This is a big improvement for mating parts in an assembly. GearTrax can be licensed over a network. We use a NetHASP by Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd. Visit www.aks.com for more information about this product.The hasp (dongle) may be installed on any computer (it does not need to be a server) on the network.As long as this computer is running with a small program, all the computers on the network will have access to the license manager.

"GearTrax is a great addition to my tools. I have saved more time than I care to think of had I not had this available. I'm designing a remote control car right now, and I don't even think about the gear design portion of this. It's about as intuitive as it could be, and with the animation, fantastic. " Mike Tripoli, Just Fun Wonderworks, Inc., Boca Raton , FL

GearTeq

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Some of GearTeq's enhanced features: Work on Multiple types of components in the same assembly See any changes to the geometry instantly on the display window Multiple gears created as a single SolidWorks part Internal splines can be used as a bore on all components Modifying CAD parts created by GearTeq is very easy Automatically create assemblies in SolidWorks with proper mating Ten standard planetary gear systems are available with a few clicks High ratio cycloid set (a single eccentrically mounted planet and a fixed internal gear) On screen animations to help you visualize the working gears Warnings when GearTeq detects something in your design that may not be proper 3D wire frame with some surface shading Create XY outputs of the involute points in Excel and text files Create data sheets using Excel or text files A description of each parameter is in the lower section of the property grid Involute profile modification using linear or parabolic deviation for spur and helical gears Automatic balance of addendum modification for spur and helical gears Create additional tooth profiles that take into consideration the shrinkage of molded plastic gear teeth Deviation chart for DIN splines, hub space width/shaft tooth thickness fit An easy to use sizing for standard spur gears Programmed on a platform that will allow greater enhancements in the future This release is compiled for x32 operating systems (it will run fine on your new x64 machine) but it will be available as an x64 program at a later date. To start GearTeq use the Window> Start All Programs's menu. The first time you start GearTeq, go to Help>GearTeq Quick Start Guide to view a PDF for concise instructions on getting started. WWhile GearTeq as no intention of replacing your CAD system it does want to provide some of the functionality you have become accustomed to. With CAD like features, you can view components with drag, rotate and multiple zooms options. You can also drive the components for immediate animation.

CamTrax64

CamTrax64 helps the designer create solid models of virtually every type of cam with the dynamic motion control parameters your system requires. During the design, CamTrax64™ generates charts when linked with Excel and adds a profile list to your drawing. Camnetics, Inc. is dedicated to providing the design engineer with accessible software for developing high speed machine cams!

CamTrax64™ standard cam types include cylindrical cams, plate (aka disk) cams and linear cams. Choose the follower type that the design requires; on center translating, off center translating and oscillating (swinging arm). Selecting different motion synthesis is a snap with CamTrax64. Choose between virtually any standard cam motion with a couple mouse clicks. With Excel the designer can analyze the cam motions and compare different motion synthesis. Don't have Excel? Output can also be to a text file! Charted are displacement, velocity, acceleration, pressure angle, cam shaft torque, radius of curvature, contact stress and normal force.

Cam Types: Cylindrical (Barrel) Segment Cams Disk Linear

Follower Types: On center translating Double cam followers Conjugate paths Off center translating Oscillating (Swinging) arm

Motions: Cycloidal* Harmonic* Modified Sine* Modified Trapezoid Cycloidal/Harmonic* Harmonic/Cycloidal* Constant Velocity Terminal Velocity 3-4-5 Polynomial 3-4-5-6 Polynomial 4-5-6-7 Polynomial 8th Power Polynomial Constant Acceleration Double Harmonic User points *Symmetry (n) is configurable.

Numerical Tables and Graphs Displacement Velocity Acceleration Pulse (jerk) Pressure Angle Cam Shaft Torque Contact Stress Normal Force Radius of Curvature

Fabrication: The fabrication module creates NC code for your 3 and 4 axis machine tools.