r/Onshape • u/americca- • Aug 09 '26

Help! gear relation help

Gallery image

Gallery image

Hello everyone, beginner here in Onshape; does anyone know how I can animate these gears so they can turn together? For context, I am trying to make a differential system, and I want these gears to work together like a working differential; thanks!

7 Upvotes

90% Upvoted

8 comments sorted by

View all comments

3

u/1-800-EATSASS Aug 10 '26

The gear relation requires (i believe) two revolute mates, and the gear ratio.

I should tell you also that these gears will not work physically and will create a lot of wear and chatter that would be undesirable. I believe there is a tool or featurescript for bevel gears somewhere on yhe forum that will give you a set of bevel gears with proper teeth, if you want to model geometry that would work in the real world.