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This question could/should be answered by a book. You should have a look to wikipedia, I think there is a head-topic about gears where you can find different types.

BTW, Inventor has an integrated gear generator. Have a look here also.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor/learn-explore/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2019/ENU/Inventor-Help/files/GUID-60E70D2F-D362-4FCE-A8FC-F8759BA2A0AF-htm.html

start a new assembly . Hit desin tab at top and all your design tools are there including gears, spur , bevel , worm,etc

In my Intro to Design class we learned all about gears. It was a while back, but I remember that gear ratios, speed, and torque are all directly related to the diameter of the gear, what kind of teeth it has on it, and how many teeth are on it. If you do a YouTube search on any of those things you’ll find all kinds of stuff. I would tell you here but it’s a lot lol. Plus a video with diagrams and pictures would be much more helpful to you.

Hi Ali,

gears are very interesting, but also quite complicated, for me anyway. If you really want to know more about gears, the link below is a good place to start. You can also request information from them that will certainly help you. It is not a subject that you can explain briefly.

https://khkgears.net/new/

Greetings,

Danny

Well, gears are very intriguing parts of machines but involve strenuous calculations when being designed. Moreover, these calculations vary depending on the type of gear set (a gear and its corresponding pinion). For instance, one may calculate for circular pitch using Pç=πd/N for spur gears while Pñ =P/cos§ goes for norminal diametral pitch for helical gears. I've made a simple involute spur gear design (although on Solidworks 2017), you may want to access it here

Grabcad model

Involute Spur Gear

A 40-teeth involute spur gear with all dimensions well-calculated.

And I recommend you to use this textbook "Theory of machines and mechanisms" by Joseph Shigley. The book gives in-depth and detailed explanations of any Gear calculations.

what are you trying to do with your gears? there are many different kinds and variations depending on the intended use. For example, if all you are trying to do is increase/reduce speed between the driver and driven shafts you may be able to get away with simple spur gears, but if you are trying to drive a heavy load at high speeds (as in a vehicle) you might want to go with ring & pinion helical bevel gears.

A very obscure question indeed. You will have to give us more objective question to answer since we cant quote a complete text book here.

But for different types of gear, here are a couple of popular ones

1) Spur Gear

2) Helical Gear

3) Bevel Gear

4) Herringbone and Double Helical gears