CNC routine for manufacturing spur gear

Abstract

Manufacturing of spur gears on CNC machining centers and CNC wire cutting is randomly used due to the difficulty in producing the perfect gear profile. The present paper faces this problem by developing a special cycle that can be used on both types of machines. A code for this cycles is designed to read the part program of any product and if detects the code nominated for this cycle (G77) which indicates that a gear needs to be cut, it develops the geometrical statements of the gear profile and the motion statements. It follows by writing the full code of the cycle. The validity of the designed model was verified on a CNC simulator.