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1-Visitor
February 1, 2024
Question

Internal and external helical spline

  • February 1, 2024
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Dear all,

 

I have searched the PTC and this user community portal for help in creating parametric internal and external spline parts. There are many posts on these but none of them have a solution.

 

Has anyone solved or found an easy method to generate internal and external helical splines?

 

Thanks and regards,

Jay

2 replies

24-Ruby III
February 1, 2024

Hi,

I am sorry I do not know what is:

  • internal helical spline
  • external helical spline
1-Visitor
February 1, 2024

Hi,

 

Attached is the image of the shaft and hub connection with a helical spline.

 

Thanks,

Jay

Patriot_1776
22-Sapphire II
February 1, 2024

I would do that as an assembly with a skeleton part in there with curves in the skeleton part driving the shape of the teeth (with clearance) and the helix.  It LOOKS like the section is normal to the long axis, not the helical trajectory, though I may be wrong.  You can sweep features with the section normal to the spine with the option: "Normal To Trajectory", or remain constant to a reference using the option: "Constant Normal Direction", in your case the flat end.  You can do a straight spine for your trajectory and use trajpar in the section relations for the twist (simplest), or you can wrap a curve around a cylinder to get the helix and use that to control the twist as a second trajectory and again using the straight spine, I'd go with the first option since you don't need the variable twist rate or reversal the wrap could give you.

 

Here's something I did for fun, I got a true involute geartooth form without using a CS and equation, and then made a sort of "herringbone" gear.

2018-12-14_vss_involute_tooth.jpg

 

Best of luck!

23-Emerald III
February 1, 2024