Software for 3,4,5-AXIS CNC MACHINING OF gears
Order online or:
1. Contact us with your gear data or pdf drawings. Sample drawing.
2. Purchase 3d gear tooth software. Sample IGES file.
3. Cut spiral bevel gears on 3,4-axis CNC milling machines. Example of 3-axis cutting.
We supply software and 3-dimensional IGES models ( sample 1, sample 2, sample 3, sample 4) of spiral bevel and other gears. Our customers use 3d models to program 3.4,5-axis CNC machines to cut spiral bevel gears (sample 1_1, sample 3_1)
Since 1986 we deliver 3-d CAD gear models for 3,4,5-axis CNC gear milling of spiral bevel, hypoid and other gears. Commonly known as Gleason or Klingelnberg gears and other gears have been modeled and produces on 3.4-axis CNC for a number of customers including Mil Helicopter, Volvo, General Motors, Chrysler, Rolls-Royce, Metso Minerals and other. Since 1999 we have been advertising Direct Digital Simulation method for 3-dimensional gear tooth modeling.
Spiral Bevel Co uses a gear tooth modeling process that provides better quality of the hardened tooth surface compare to the hard cutting process known as Klingelnberg. The better process offers faster soft and more accurate hard cutting of case hardened 64 HRc tooth surface. Our 3-dimensional tooth contact simulation software is used for design and inspection. While the traditional gear manufacturing methods require iterations in contact pattern development, our manufacturing method is more accurate so we produce required tooth contact pattern from the first cut.
Our TCA software allows to predict the tooth contact before machining, so we can correct design before gears are cut.
Besides software and 3d CAD models of gears we are offering services of detail examination of the existing gears and then we correct the design, tooth geometry and tooth contact. When examining existing gears we often find hidden errors in tooth geometry. Detection of the hidden defects would be impossible by the traditional inspection methods. In practice, we can examine a spiral bevel gear by taking a points on CMM and then we reverse engineer the original Gleason or Klingelnberg machine summary in order to discover that, often, the original summary may need to be corrected in order to produce a correct contact pattern.
The previously popular theory of gears was based on formula NV=0.
The new theory helped to calculate more accurate Gleason machine summary.
been proposed and successfully applied for spiral bevel gear production for helicopter gears. Historically, spiral bevel gears have been produced on Klingelnberg or on 
Gleason machines by generating method.
The disadvantage of the historical gear manufacturing machines is that they are limited by the boundaries of the old gear theory.
3,4-axis CNC gear cutting process is more flexible in modification of the tooth surface and it offers a higher quality.
Because we accurately calculate 3-dimensional geometry of the gear tooth we can accurately calculate stresses with help of Finite Element Method (FEM or FEA).
In result, we offer higher load capacity gear design.
The traditional spiral bevel generating machines often develop problems of interference in the root area. The traditional CMM spiral bevel inspection software offered by Gleason or by Klingelnberg inspects the only portion of the tooth that comes to the contact.
Our software calculates the entire tooth geometry including the tooth root. Correct calculation of the tooth root improves strength of gears. In addition to the root stress optimization our digital simulation methods allow better optimization of the tooth contact pattern.
