CAD Ideas and Inspiration (Serious)

[chuyskywalker]

@ducktaperules

What you guys think?

Fully possible:

Fully 3D printed gear drive that might not suck

While working on another project I had an idea for attaching 3D printed gears, pulleys, etc… to shafts in a reliable way by taking a small (and cheap) pulley and knocking off the outer flange then modeling the inverse of the pulley teeth into whatever you are trying to attach to the shaft (see picture below). Essentially what this gives you is a compact, cheap, micro-spline connection. [IMG_20181103_111139304_HDR] I had been eyeing gear drive drives for a little while and was intrigued, but t…