Gear Collision detected, how to avoid

[fphelps]

Hello All,

I am setting up this gear differential for a class using bevel gears. I can get it to run properly, however if you look at this picture the gear on the right side and the bottom gear are colliding. How do I overcome this. This is a manufacture model and I have been using the helix and pressure angles listed by the manufacturer as well as the pitch listed. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[unickque]

Could it be that the gear in the top is positioned incorrectly? It looks like it should be lowered a bit. And since it is a spiral bevel gear that will alter the angles...

[fphelps · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the reply Patrick. The height may be off a little but not by much. The only reason for this was me maybe changing things around to get it right. However I figured it out. You can setup datums in your part so when you go to set up your rotation axis you can just align the datums through the pin connection / and once in this command there is a sub command called rotation axis that you can set this up. A work around I found before discovering this was just to go to the drag components inside mechanism and align to entities and pick the datums you setup in the part level.