| Pattern Characteristic | Predicted Noise Level | |------------------------|------------------------| | Centered, full face width, 40–60% of tooth height | Low | | Slight diagonal (≤ 10°), moderate end clearance | Moderate | | Tip contact, heavy diagonal, or narrow width | High | | Interrupted (two separate patches) | Very high (gear likely rejected) |
An engineer at a naval defense contractor needs to manufacture a replacement drive gear for a winch system designed in 1982. The drawings cite AGMA 218.01 as the governing standard. Instead of manually looking up charts and calculating stress by hand (which is prone to error), the engineer loads the geometry into the CAD software, toggles the , and instantly validates that the replacement material meets the original safety factors required by law, not the modern ones which might force an unnecessary (and expensive) redesign. agma 218.01
When a user imports a legacy gear model, this feature runs a dual-analysis pass: once using AGMA 218.01, and once using the current ANSI/AGMA 2001. | Pattern Characteristic | Predicted Noise Level |