Gearotic experience?

[sid pileski]

Has anyone here used this program?
I'm wondering if it is able to do worm gear sets?

Thanks, Sid

[elf]

It doesn't do worm gears or worms. It does do a bunch of different timing belt pulleys as well as spur, helical, knuckle, herringbone, and bevel gears. I use Autodesk Inventor for worms.

[Sparky_NY]

I used it to make helical gears for my .357 gatling gun build, worked fantastic. Don't know about worms for sure.

[RMinMN]

FreeCAD does worms but I don't see worm gear. I think someone who knew a lot more than I could make the worm gear from an involute spur which it does. It does not seem like a simple operation.

OK, I found a tutorial for worm gear generation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKy8Y9P8lxo

[RB211]

I have gearotic. Not happy with the developers ability to fix issues, same guy that wrote Mach3/Mach4, why I won't touch that software. Gearotic is unable to spit out a useable 3d CAD model for use with Solidworks or Fusion, his response is, "Well, I followed the documentation". No intention of ever fixing it.

[metalfixer]

No experience with Gearotic, but you can make standard or custom
worm gear sets with Vectorworks, or McMaster has CAD models of
worm gear sets, if that might help.
Larry

[J Tiers]

Heck, you can do worms with any cad system that supports a helical cut path. What's the issue? Well, you DO need to know the geometry you want, but..............

Then some work with boolean subtract and you can do a worm wheel

[metalfixer]

[andywander]

I have gearotic. Not happy with the developers ability to fix issues, same guy that wrote Mach3/Mach4...

Art Fenerty did indeed write both Gearotic Motion and Mach3, but he was not involved in the massive re-write that is/was Mach4.

[sid pileski]

I certainly can model up anything. I use Creo for a living. But gerotic is pretty quick for the “what if.
This gear needs to be 12:1 for the clock, and it has some pre defined parameters that it would be nice to not have to change if possible.

Sid