Note:

Users looking to animate their Geneva Mechanism (with Basic Motion) may check out this thread : https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/27404?tstart=0

Users looking to animate their Geneva Mechanism (with Screen Capture via Physical Dynamics) may read further below.

SW files for practice of Geneva Mechanism can be found below (Geneva Mechanism .zip, by Deepak), as well as in the link above (Geneva Mech 2 .zip, by Ian Hogg).

Acknowledgements to Deepak and Ian Hogg for their help in the SW files and also in making it all possible!

My idea can be explained with the image above. On the right you can see a 1 tooth pinion, and on the left is a 24 teeth gear. Gear ratio is 24:1. It is my intention that 1 rev. of the pinion will turn the gear 1/24 rev.

Both gears in the image are taken from the Toolbox in Solidworks -- I did not create them. However, in Toolbox, the min. no. of allowable teeth for a spur gear is 10 -- my pinion needs only 1 tooth, so I hid the rest of the teeth, but this is not the correct method. And there are interference seen above. I need to cut some material along the periphery of the pinion so only its tooth is the only thing meshing the gear.

Can this be done?

My skills in Solidworks are "Beginner" and my version is 2007.

Kind regards,

Faith.