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Computer Aided Modeling Design of External Gear Pump

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Computer Aided Modeling Design of External Gear Pump

Fengquan Guo* and Qiang Zhang

Weifang Engineering Vocational College, Shandong, China

*Corresponding author: fengquanguo@wfec.cn

Abstract. In order to solve the problems in the structural design of the gear pump in
use, three dimensional modeling software is used to complete the parts modeling of
gear pump one by one, it is assembled as a gear pump, and the structure of gear pump
is optimized by auxiliary design, further improve the performance of gear pump,
Computer aided modeling design can effectively improve the design efficiency,
Optimize the structure performance, reduce the design cost and improve the economic
benefit.

Keywords: Gear pump, Computer modeling, Structural optimization.

1. Pump Body Modeling

Sketch the outline. 2D sketch design is the basis of creating other solid features. The outline objects in
the sketch can be drawn, edited, constrained, modified and managed. Combining with the actual gear
pump body and comparing with the pump body engineering drawings, the structure and design
dimensions of the pump body are analyzed, and the sketch outline of one end face of the pump body [1]
is drawn as shown in Figure 1. Pump body is a kind of complex entity, one-time sketch design cannot
meet the requirements of modeling, after completing the corresponding solid modeling, with the help
of the existing plane or the creation of datum plane, according to the modeling needs, complete the
corresponding sketch contour several times, as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 1. Pump body end sketch Figure 2. Pump body sketch

The tensile characteristics of pump body. Stretch feature design is based on sketch, which is
extended in the vertical direction of sketch plane. It is divided into base stretch, cut stretch and add
stretch. For stretching operation, firstly, select the stretched sketch, secondly, specify the vector
direction of stretching, thirdly, limit the stretching distance in the vertical direction, fourthly, select the
Boolean operation of the stretched body, fifthly, further improve the draft, offset and body type
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settings of the stretched body according to the needs, and then preview the stretched body to complete
the stretching modeling. The design of pump body is based on the end face sketch, and the solid
modeling is completed, as shown in Figure 3, Based on the existing plane and the new datum plane,
after completing the sketch outline design, the drawing operation is carried out several times to
complete the drawing design of the pump body, as shown in Figure 4.

Figure 3. Solid modeling of pump body Figure 4. Drawing modeling of pump body

Sweep stiffener features. There are many methods to design sweep feature, such as sweep, style
sweep, change sweep and so on, but they are all based on sketch contour. In the sweep operation, one
or two section curves are selected as the original curves, then guide lines are added and selected, and
at most 3 lines can be selected. Then ridge curves are selected, section options and volume types are
set as required. The sweep design of the pump body stiffener is to take a quadrilateral section as the
original curve and add three guide lines to complete the sweep feature operation. The swept entity of
the stiffener is shown in Figure 5, and the entity after Boolean summation with the pump body
stretched entity is shown in Figure 6.

Figure 5. Modeling of stiffener in pump body Figure 6. Pump body stiffener summation entity

Pump body modeling. The hole feature of pump body can be designed by drawing sketch or
directly drilling. Select the hole in the insert and design features, first select the hole type, then
determine the drilling position and direction, then complete the shape and size design again, finally
complete the Boolean operation and setting, preview and confirm. The thread design features need to
be completed on the basis of the hole, mainly determining the rotation direction, major diameter,
minor diameter, pitch and angle of the hole. The hole in the pump body is the locating pin hole, and
the thread pitch is 2.0 mm and 1.5 mm. The local shape [2] is shown in Figure 7.

Figure 7. Hole and thread features Figure 8. Pump body modelling

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The detail feature design of solid includes fillet, bevel, draft and so on. Select the edge rounding in
the insertion and detail features. The common operation is to select the edge to be inverted, enter the
shape and radius of the fillet, and the rest will be determined according to the situation. The reverse
angle is also to select the chamfered edge, select the offset cross section type, input the offset distance,
and complete the detailed feature modeling of the pump body, as shown in Figure 8.

2. End Cap Modeling

The modeling process of gear pump end cover is similar to that of pump body, and the sketch outline
design of end cover is shown in Figure 9. Through the end cover stretch feature modeling design, the
hole feature and thread feature design of the gear pump end cover are completed, and the complete
entity design of the end cover detail feature is improved, as shown in Figure 10.

Figure 9. End cover sketch outline Figure 10. End cap modeling

3. Gear Shaft Modeling

Gear pump has driving and driven gear shaft, they have the same number of teeth, tooth shape and
other technical values, the modeling process is the same. After the gear modeling, the shaft is modeled
respectively to complete the modeling of the master-slave gear shaft.
Sketch the tooth profile. The template file of spur gear is established, and the datum coordinate system
is activated. In the sketch, the indexing circle, base circle, tooth root circle and tooth top circle of the
gear are four concentric circles, and the center of the circle is the coordinate origin, and the dimension
is constrained. Start the navigator expression edit box, input the technical value and corresponding
expression of gear in the edit box, and draw the regular curve of involute [3], as shown in Figure 11.
Base plane 1 is drawn by z-axis, dividing circle and involute, Base plane 2 is drawn based on Z
axis and base plane 1, Take datum plane 2 as the reference plane and draw another sketch outline, as
shown in Figure 12.

Figure 11. Regular curve Figure 12. Gear sketch profile

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Figure 13. Solid modeling of gear teeth Figure 14. Gear modelling

Figure 15. Modeling of driving gear shaft Figure 16. Modeling of driven gear shaft

Create the gear base. The tooth profile is created by cutting tooth sketch curve, combining with
tooth root circle and tooth top circle, and hiding other curves. Create a tooth entity by stretching the
feature, and array the tooth entity by "drawing the feature", as shown in Figure 13. On the X-Y surface,
take the tooth base circle as the contour to create the gear shape, as shown in Figure 14.
Create a gear shaft. On the basis of gear modeling, the gear shaft is stretched, spline features are
created, and detailed features are improved, the modeling of driving gear shaft is shown in Figure 15,
and the modeling of driven gear shaft is shown in Figure 16.

4. Auxiliary Part Modeling

The model and size of the auxiliary parts of the external gear pump are relatively fixed, the modeling
of locating pin is shown in Figure 17, the modeling of bolt is shown in Figure 18, the modeling of oil
baffle is shown in Figure 19, and the modeling of bearing is shown in Figure 20.

Figure 17. Modeling of locating pin Figure 18. Bolt modelling

Figure 19. Modeling of oil baffle Figure 20. Bearing modeling

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5. Assembly Effect of Gear Pump

Assembly is the process of organizing and positioning the design parts of a product as a whole, the
relationship between components is determined by constraints, and the assembly is composed of parts
and subassemblies, assemble all parts of the gear pump according to the requirements of the drawing,
and adjust all parts by moving and rotating to ensure that all parts do not interfere with each other. The
assembly design entity of the gear pump is shown in Figure 21.
Assembly drawings cannot fully express the internal structure clearly, and explosion drawings can
make up for this deficiency, by specifying the direction and distance of the components in the
assembly structure, which deviates from the original actual position, the relationship between the
components can be clearly expressed. The explosion diagram of gear pump is shown in Figure 22.

Figure 21. Gear pump assembly drawing

Figure 22. Exploded view of gear pump

6. Conclusions
Three-dimensional solid modeling and overall assembly design of external gear pump parts, modeling
process using UG three-dimensional design software. In this paper, the main parts of gear pump,
including pump body, end cover, driving gear shaft and driven gear shaft, are studied. The sketch
contour design, drawing, sweeping, thread and detail features used in modeling are analyzed in detail.
The auxiliary part modeling is used to complete the overall assembly drawing and explosion drawing.

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