Solvespace: Geneva Drive Mechanism. Design and 3D print (REMASTERED).
In this video I’ll design and 3D print a Geneva drive mechanism. I saw a video of Maker’s Muse where he designed a Geneva drive in Fusion 3D and I wondered if I could do the same in Solvespace.
In this video I’ll show you the geometry and how to calculate all the dimensions of a Geneva drive thus enabling you to create any complete Geneva wheel yourself. During this project I designed, 3d printed and assembled several Geneva drives but for this video I’ll concentrate on the drawing of the Geneva wheel in Solvespace. However I do provide all the available Solvespace files for the wheel, crank and mount as well as the LibreOffice spreadsheet shown in this video.
links:
Maker's Muse video on the Geneva wheel: https://invidio.us/watch?v=1lyWywC_z4o
The animation of the Geneva drive was taken from Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_drive. The animation is public domain.
Solvespace files for the 6 slot Geneva drive mechanism:
mount: https://drive.google.com/open?id=16I7jlSP3wSMFsNibA4037QIhivsbHtef
crank: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1c0F9ohTTu_nBDvzeGqrnFAEsumUOZg11
wheel: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1kCoesJJ4Ph3hLjGLmXLo50TyMc0O-vXz
Spreadsheet in open document format (.ods): https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hlU7H6eaDbdahSgTSBHvdT2yt7FwyPQ5
For this video I used Solvespace 2.3 on OSX.
Solvespace is open source (GPLv3 license) and is available for Window, OSX and Linux. It is developed by Jonathan Westhues and maintained by Whitequark and others. It can be downloaded here: http://solvespace.com/download.pl
