Inventor gears?

[JoshPHewson]

Hey I just downloaded Autodesk Inventor 10 about 6 days ago, I am trying to build a vex within it and am new to this software.

I was wondering if anyone knew a good way to make spur gears within it. I've played around with the built in spur gear generator but it doesn't seem to be able to do what i want or maybe its just that I don't know how to completely use it. I cannot figure out how to change the spur gear diameter size and mesh more than two gears together by using the generator.

Can someone tell me what I'm missing or is there another way to get gears that mesh and rotate together?

[JoshPHewson]

Ok never mind on that, i figured out the Gear generator part, all you have to do is disable the calculate dimensions button in the upper right hand corner of the generator window. Once you do that it goes off the the two cylindrical faces you choose. If you do not disable it, you will get errors and your teeth wont mesh together right.


I have another question, Does anybody know how to get the gear from the generator to be attached to a shaft (the cylindrical face you choose) instead of around it? Do you have to use the shaft generator or can you make a cylinder, extrude it and then somehow constrain it? My gears just spins around (the cylinder face I choose), I want that to turn as well.... anybody know anything about this??