Re: Gear milling

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., smoke@t... wrote:

> Anyone know of a SIMPLE program (possibly a plug in?) for

generating

> drawings of gears so's I can generate some g code for milling them?
>

Smoke,
Unless these are big gears how are you going to get a tool into the
gear shape?
Most of the gear generating programs are for wire eroders. Milling
with small cutters won't give you a deep enough face width.
There is a program here:-
http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/41862.shtml
This will even generate the G code for you, or save as a DXF file,
but beware they are large files as it's all small moves.

John Stevenson