This tutorial exercise provides step by step instruction on creating a hubless spur gear.

Follow the
steps shown below.
Step One
Open CATIA by double clicking the Icon which would be in your desktop if you are using
Windows and believe it to be the same for UNIX also. The screen would be as in Figure 1.

Figure 1.
Step Two
Click File menu from top of your screen and click new file option from the menu list as shown in
Figure 2.

Figure 2.
Step Three
Then a small dialogue box appears as shown in Figure 3. Select part from the list and click OK.
Then a default part with name part1 is opened.

Figure 3.
Step Four
Select yz plane from specification tree as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4.
Step Five
Select Sketcher workbench by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 5.

Figure 4.

Step Six
Now let us select Circle tool by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 6 or select from Insert >
Profile > Circle > Circle menu Figure 7.

Figure 6.

Figure 7.
Step Seven
Draw a circle as shown Figure 8.

Figure 8.
Step Eight
Now select Constraint tool by clicking the icon in the tool bar as shown in Figure 9.

Figure 9.
Step Nine
Now just click on the circle and the diameter of the circle would be displayed as shown in Figure
10. When you double click on the diameter value Constraint Definition dialogue box appears
where you can see present diameter value as shown in Figure 11. Now let us change the value of
diameter to 100mm and click ok, as shown in Figure 12.

Figure 10.

Figure 11.

Figure 12.

Step Ten
Create one more circle inside the present one and set its diameter to 194mm as shown in figure
13.

Figure 13.

Step Eleven
Exit "Sketcher" workbench by clicking the icon in toolbar as shown in Figure 14.

Figure 14.
Step Twelve
Select Pad tool by clicking the icon in the toolbar as shown in Figure 15 or go to Insert >
Sketch-Based Features > Pad menu and select pad tool as shown in Figure 16.

Figure 15.

Figure 16.

Step Thirteen
When Pad Definition dialog box appears after selecting pad tool enter the values as shown in
Figure 17 and click ok.

Figure 17.
Step Fourteen
The resultant part would be as shown in Figure 18.

Figure 18.
Step Fifteen
Select Fillet tool by clicking the icon in toolbar as shown in Figure 19 or go to Insert >
Dress-Up Features > Edge Fillet menu and select Fillet tool Figure 20.

Figure 19.

Figure 20.

Step Sixteen
When Edge Fillet Definition dialog appears select four edges and enter 4mm as radius as
shown in Figure 21 and click ok.

Figure 21.
Step Seventeen
Select yz plane from specification tree as shown in Figure 22.

Figure 22.
Step Eighteen
Select Sketcher workbench by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 23.

Figure 23.
Step Nineteen
Now let us select Line tool by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 24 or select from Insert >
Profile > Line > Line menu as shown in Figure 25.

Figure 24.

Figure 25

Step Twenty
Draw a sketch as shown in Figure 26.

Figure 26.
Step Twenty One
Exit Sketcher workbench by clicking the icon in toolbar as shown in Figure 27.

Figure 27.
Step Twenty Two
Select Pocket tool by clicking the icon in toolbar as shown in Figure 28 or go to Insert >
Sketch-Based Features > Pocket menu and select Pocket as shown in Figure 29.

Figure 28.

Figure 29.
Step Twenty Three
When Pocket Definition dialog box appears select Sketcher.4 as profile and enter 20mm
depth of pocket as shown in Figure 30 and click ok.

Figure 30

Step Twenty Four

Select Pocket.1 from specification tree as shown in Figure 31.

Figure 31.

Step Twenty Five

Select Circular Pattern tool by clicking the icon as shown in Figure 32 or to go Insert >
Transformation Features > Circular Pattern menu and select the tool as shown in Figure 33.

Figure 32.

Figure 33.
Step Twenty Six
When Circular Pattern Definition dialog box appears enter the parameters as shown in
Figure 34.

Figure 34.
Step Twenty Seven
Resultant spur gear with out hub would be as shown in Figure 35.

Figure 35.