Worm Gear Dynamic Simulation

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Inventor 2012 Tutorial Worm Gear Dynamic Simulation Step 1 Open Inventor, then click New>Assembly Step 2 Save it to your working directory.

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Inventor 2012 Tutorial Worm Gear Dynamic Simulation

Step 1

Open Inventor, then click

New>Assembly

Step 2

Save it to your working directory.

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Step 3

You may need to create a new folder to save your new Assembly file.

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Step 4

Select the Design tab ribbon and choose Worm Gear in pull down the menu.

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Step 5

Use the following (default) settings and click OK.

Another dialogue box may appear, click OK.

Step 6

Left click-mouse on the screen to place the component..

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Step 7

Re-orient your model to isometric view as shown below.

Step 8

On the Assembly browser (side bar), Right click on "Worm Gear" and select

“Flexible" to activate that mode.

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Step 9

Now click

Assemble > Constrain

Step 10

The following display menu will appear. In the Type area, make sure the

“Place” and “Selection 1” option are active then select “X axis” in the Origin

pull-down menu as shown below in red box.

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Step 11

Notice that “Selection 2” is now active which allows you to select the Worm Gear

Origin "X Axis"

You may need to expand the Worm Gear menu by clicking on the + sign. Make

sure the Worm Gear: Part is also expanded so you can select the X Axis from that

menu as highlighted in red box below.

Step 12

Then click OK

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Step 13

Select Constrain (if not already open) and follow the same process above in steps

10 & 11, except this time select “Centre Point” as highlighted in red below.

Step 14

With "Selection 2” active, select "Center Point" as highlighted in red below.

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Step 15

Click OK

Step 16

Right click on XY Plane in the Assembly browser (side bar), and activate

"Visibility".

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Step 17

Again select Constrain as shown in the following figure and select "XY Plane" as

highlighted with the red box.

Step 18 Now with Selection 2 active, select the "XY Plane: of the Worm Gear as shown in

highlighted (red box) below.

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Step 19

Click OK.

Step 20

Next step is to constrain the "Worm" with XY Plane of "Worm Gear". Now the

Angle constraint will be selected as shown in following figure.

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Step 21

Select "XZ Plane" of Worm as a 1st Selection.

Step 22

Now select "XY Plane" on the Worm Gear Origin.

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Step 23

All Constraints are done.

Step 24

Now turn off "Visibility" of XY Plane (Refer to Step 16 for details).

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Step 25

Collapse all the menus in side menu.

Step 26

Now click the pull-down arrow (highlighted with red box) and select "Modeling

View".

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Step 27

From Constraints menu, Right click on last constraint shown here (red box), and

select "Drive Constraint".

Step 28

Following display menu will appear. Now Enter start value as "0 degree" and end

value as "3600 degree" to get 10 revolutions of worm.

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Step 29

Now for advanced setting, click the << button and enter amount of value of

increment as highlighted.

Step 30

Click Forward button as highlighted, and enjoy Animation (Dynamic Simulation)

of Worm Drive. :-)

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Step 31

Here is the Animation.

Step 32

PAT ON THE BACK IF IT WORKED :-)