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Are gears hard to mate?

Question asked by Carl Kauffman on Sep 21, 2011
Latest reply on Sep 21, 2011 by John Stoltzfus

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I have a worm, worm gear, rack and rack gear.

I added all these components to my assembly and they look fine.

I would like to mate them together so turning the worm results in the gears rolling on the rack.

The movement is not required in my assembly, but I saw it on a video and thought it looked fun.

Is this a difficult task designed for advanced users?

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Lenny Bucholz Sep 21, 2011 4:09 PM
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you need to use advance mates, it doesn't really mate the faces but put the a variable to them like 1 to 2 or rpm and so on.

sorry this is it:

Mechanical Mates
Cam. Forces a cylinder, plane, or point to be coincident or tangent to a series of tangent extruded faces.
Gear. Forces two components to rotate relative to one another about selected axes.
Hinge. Limits the movement between two components to one rotational degree of freedom.
Rack and Pinion. Linear translation of one part (the rack) causes circular rotation in another part (the pinion), and vice versa.
Screw. Constrains two components to be concentric, and also adds a pitch relationship between the rotation of one component and the translation of the other.
Universal Joint. The rotation of one component (the output shaft) about its axis is driven by the rotation of another component (the input shaft) about its axis.
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John Stoltzfus Sep 21, 2011 4:09 PM
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Good afternoon Carl,

Review the attached pic,

Later,

John
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