The teeth on a helical gear cut at an angle to the face of the gear ... in which the shape is a revolved hyperboloid instead of conical shape. The hypoid gear places the pinion off-axis to ...

All images courtesy of Malcom Burrows To the best of our knowledge, the mechanical gear—evenly-sized teeth cut into two different rotating surfaces to lock them together as they turn—was ...

Of course, if the gear train is new, the shaft geometry will be too. Users can then turn to an editor in the shaft module, define the shaft geometry using cylindrical and conical elements ...