Spur gear racks

Multiple spur gear, spur gear rack, and hub tools share the same position on the tool set. Click and hold the mouse on the visible tool to open the Pop-out tools list and select the desired tool.

2.Click to place the object, and click again to set the rotation. The first time you use the tool in a file, a properties dialog box opens. Set the default parameters. The parameters can be edited later from the Object Info palette.

Parameter	Description
Method	Select whether to insert the spur gear rack using either a diametral pitch (for imperial sizes) or module (for metric sizes)
Diametral Pitch or Module (mm)	Specify either the diametral pitch or module, for the selected insertion method
Pressure Angle	Select the pressure angle
Number of Teeth	Enter the number of teeth
Thickness	Enter the base thickness
Face Width	Enter the width of the spur gear rack face
View (2D only)	Select the 2D view
Show All Teeth	Draws the all teeth; deselect to draw only the end teeth
Draw Fillet	Draws filleted spur gear rack teeth
Show Pitch Line (2D only)	Draws the spur gear rack with a pitch line