From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling Gears
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Designing your mounting plate - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Modeling Gears
Designing your mounting plate
- [Instructor] Creating our gear assembly is to create our mounting plate. The gears will sit on the plate with gear one on the left, gear two on the upper right and gear three on the lower right. We can see from the feature design tree that the sketch for our holes is under defined. If we open up the sketch we see that the position for holes two and three are under defined and we'll need to fully define these holes before we can make our extruded cut. To do this we're going to use the center distance equation to calculate the distance between our gear center points. Since we know what the respective gear pitches will be. As you recall, the center distance between two mating gears is the sum of the pitch diameters for the gears divided by two. If we exit out of the sketch and open up our equations window we see that the pitch diameters for our three gears have been entered in under the global variables header. We'll create…
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