> It�s worth considering hobbing, in theory it makes better gears and jobs are > fairly cheap on eBay, compared to a full set of involute cutters.
That's true. Although I do now have a set of involute cutters I bought online. > > To cut helical gears (regardless of spindle orientation) you need to move A in > proportion to X. If you have enough control of A to do that you might as well > link it to the spindle encoder. It�s a few lines of HAL code. > > A tilting dividing head (like the BS0 pattern) could be used with a fixed > vertical spindle and coordinated XZA moves and an involute cutter, though. Be interesting to see how that's done. What I didn't mention about the video link I posted was his description on how to like up the cutter. Most videos showing helical gearing seem to leave out that bit. John > > _______________________________________________ > Emc-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
