Helical Gear cutting with Mach3

[jluisrey]

A sample of helical gear cut on PVC with Mach3:



Regards,

[Glenn]

Hi jluisrey,
   Great gear!  How many axis does this process require,and
how deep of a cut can you take on each pass?
   Also..Do you write your own code or what program
do you use to generate it?

  Thanks,
 Glenn

[jluisrey]

Hello Glenn,

3 Axis are used, X,Z,A, and the deep was 3mm, one pass cut (the material is PVC),

I write a small program and a excel sheet to generate gcode for gear, need tool angle, number of toochs, space bettwen tooch, and desired angle,

Regards,
Rey

[Benny]

I would be interested to see the process of generating the gcode.

[jluisrey]

Hello,

Here you have the excell sheet and the program to generate the gcode, I will try to do a Mach3 wizard, but I don't know were to start ;O)

http://www.saand.es/joseyana/temp/gcode_helgears.zip

Regards
Rey

[WH33LS]

very cool

A axis?

and was wondering if you could paste the Gcode in a txt file

Thanks in advance