Machine Design Projects

At Western Washington University I took a machine design class. I was interested in that class so I ended up going a little overboard on my project work in the sense that rather than answering all of the questions individually, I solved them parametrically. The first project was on shaft design. The attached shaft design file has the shaft design calculator, an automated CATIA V5 file, and other relevant project information. The second project was a gear design project that related to the shaft designed in project 1. For this project I manually derived most equations for values that were presented in the class graphically to allow for accurate and adaptable parameterization rather than taking values from charts. In the second project I also implemented a material database so that gear materials could be adjusted to inform design.