Gears and specialized indicators used in a E Howard Co Tower Clock simulation
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2016 12:44 pm
Hi Art:
I created a large simulation of an E Howard Company Tower Clock earlier this year using Gearotics. This simulation is being used to document the design of an existing tower clock.
The goal of this post is to not only share my large Gearotics simulation model of the tower clock but also to share custom indicators and a gear library that I created in support of the simulation model. The model is stored on a google drive and the following is an unrestricted link to the GTH file because the file is too large (size ~100MByte) to directly post on the forum.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8aAv ... 0J0TGp5WHc
Included in this post are :
1. Jpg of my EHowardCo Tower Clock Simulation
2. PDF EHC-Simulation-2016-0606
3. PDF MyCustomIndicators-2016-0606
4. ZIP MyGearData.zip
EHC-TowerClockSim
The first attachment jpg is a screen capture of the model. If this strikes your interest then read the next two PDF files.
EHC-Simulation-2016-0606.pdf
This file describes some of the design features and trade-offs that I made while constructing the model. I do plan to write-up a functional description of the operation of the clock at a later date.
MyCustomIndicators-2016-0606
I created some custom "indicators" to dress up the tower clock model. This document describes the purpose and use of the various indicators.
MyGearData.zip
Contains the following folders & subfolders:
EHC-SimulationFolder
EHowardTowerClock-GearLibrary folder: gtlib files of gears contained in the simulation
EHC-MotionWorks.gth -- a small subset of the overall simulation that shows the motionworks of the EHC tower clock.
Simulated-3D-Vane.avi -- video focused on a subset of the full model.
MyCustomIndicators folder contains DXF files of the "custom indicators" used in the simulation.
Bill
I created a large simulation of an E Howard Company Tower Clock earlier this year using Gearotics. This simulation is being used to document the design of an existing tower clock.
The goal of this post is to not only share my large Gearotics simulation model of the tower clock but also to share custom indicators and a gear library that I created in support of the simulation model. The model is stored on a google drive and the following is an unrestricted link to the GTH file because the file is too large (size ~100MByte) to directly post on the forum.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8aAv ... 0J0TGp5WHc
Included in this post are :
1. Jpg of my EHowardCo Tower Clock Simulation
2. PDF EHC-Simulation-2016-0606
3. PDF MyCustomIndicators-2016-0606
4. ZIP MyGearData.zip
EHC-TowerClockSim
The first attachment jpg is a screen capture of the model. If this strikes your interest then read the next two PDF files.
EHC-Simulation-2016-0606.pdf
This file describes some of the design features and trade-offs that I made while constructing the model. I do plan to write-up a functional description of the operation of the clock at a later date.
MyCustomIndicators-2016-0606
I created some custom "indicators" to dress up the tower clock model. This document describes the purpose and use of the various indicators.
MyGearData.zip
Contains the following folders & subfolders:
EHC-SimulationFolder
EHowardTowerClock-GearLibrary folder: gtlib files of gears contained in the simulation
EHC-MotionWorks.gth -- a small subset of the overall simulation that shows the motionworks of the EHC tower clock.
Simulated-3D-Vane.avi -- video focused on a subset of the full model.
MyCustomIndicators folder contains DXF files of the "custom indicators" used in the simulation.
Bill