At 01:23 AM 5/13/2009, you wrote: >On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 07:24 +1000, Frank Tkalcevic wrote: > > > On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:30 -0400, Douglas Pollard wrote: > > > > I don't know where to tell you to look but the metric gear info is > > > > out there somewhere for little or no money. > > > > > > I thought you where wrong here because I was getting nearly > > > goose eggs, but I tried Googling "metric gear rack profile" > > > and got this: > > > http://www.sdp-si.com/d785/html1/D785T000.html > > > > > > > On the sdp-si web site you can download 2d and 3d models of all the gears > > and pulleys they sell. Does anyone know if the models are accurate enough > > to generate gcode from? > >Sorry I don't have a .dwg compatible CAD program, so I can't view these >gear files. From the links I have received, it's turning out that it's >not that difficult to generate the gear profile ounce you have the pitch >diameter and pitch determined, so the drawings might not be all that >handy. >-- >Kirk Wallace >http://www.wallacecompany.com/machine_shop/ >http://www.wallacecompany.com/E45/index.html >California, USA
Kurt, Can you read in .dxf's? If you want, you could send me the gear drawings of the gears you're interested in, and I can save them in AutoCad 2003 as dxf's and send them back to you. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users