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General CNC Chat => Show"N"Tell ( What you have made with your CNC machine.) => Topic started by: jluisrey on March 31, 2008, 06:45:06 AM

Title: Helical Gear cutting with Mach3
Post by: jluisrey on March 31, 2008, 06:45:06 AM

A sample of helical gear cut on PVC with Mach3:

(http://www.saand.es/joseyana/temp/helical_gear_cutting.jpg)

Regards,

Title: Re: Helical Gear cutting with Mach3
Post by: Glenn on March 31, 2008, 10:17:06 PM

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 ;)

Title: Re: Helical Gear cutting with Mach3
Post by: jluisrey on April 01, 2008, 07:51:29 AM

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

Title: Re: Helical Gear cutting with Mach3
Post by: Benny on April 03, 2008, 06:19:57 PM

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

Title: Re: Helical Gear cutting with Mach3
Post by: jluisrey on April 04, 2008, 06:10:46 AM

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

Title: Re: Helical Gear cutting with Mach3
Post by: WH33LS on April 05, 2008, 06:04:17 AM

very cool

A axis?

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

Thanks in advance :)