Using Lantern Gages with Cycloidal Gears

[BobL]

Kirk;

 Well said, definitel y food for thought.. .

Cheers
Bob

[Ken Condal]

Hi Art & Bob,

I'm having new problems with this feature and v4.26.

I'm working in inch mode, so I specify a DP of 25.4 which is a Module of 1.0. The same DP/Module is specified in both the Epy and Lantern panels.

I start a new project and create a 147T Epy gear. I then create an 11T Cage to mesh with it. When I try to place the cage in the project I get "Differing Module on this gear".

Rounding errors?

Ken

[BobL]

Ken;

 I'll let Art answer you on this one but the error your having is caused from a different gear type while attemptin g to mesh. I know work is being done to allow this under certain condition s, but obviously not perfected yet if at all possible to do.


Cheers
Bob

[ArtF]

Hi Ken:

  Yup, you hit it on the head. The module of the cage was .99999999 99 and the epi was 1.0 .. so a mismatch.
I chnaged the code to allow up to a .2 variation in module. ( All internal checks are in module..n ot dp which is why the
conversio n caused a rounding. In actual fact differing modules will mesh if the differenc e is small, so Ill allow up to a .5 module differenc e in the next release.

  ( I know you need it so Ill try for this evening to update..I ll let you know when its up. )

Thx
Art\