Gear design - made clearer.
Guides and articles on standards-based gear rating, AI-assisted design, and how Zenomiq fits into your engineering workflow.
Guides & articles
- Fundamentals
Gear Safety Factors Explained: Root (SF) vs Flank (SH)
What root bending safety (SF) and flank pitting safety (SH) actually mean, why gears need both, and how ISO 6336 derives them — in plain terms, with an online tool to try.
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Spur vs Helical Gears: Which Should You Use?
Spur or helical? Compare load capacity, smoothness, noise, axial thrust and cost, with a simple decision guide — then rate either type online to ISO 6336.
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5 Ways to Fix a Gear That Fails Its Safety Factor
Root or flank safety too low? Five practical levers — module, face width, profile shift, material and quality grade — and how each one moves SF and SH.
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Tools & comparisons
- Comparisons
Gear Design Software, Benchmarked: Where Zenomiq Fits
A fair benchmark of today's gear design software — established desktop suites, spreadsheets and web tools — across the dimensions that actually matter. Where a browser-based, AI-assisted approach is genuinely different, and where the mature suites still lead.
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A Free Online Gear Design Tool for Spur & Helical Gears
Size and rate a cylindrical gear pair in your browser: geometry per DIN 3960 / ISO 21771, ISO 6336 and VDI 2736 rating, and an AI design mode — on a free tier you can use right after a quick sign-in, with nothing to install.
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ISO 6336 Gear Design Tool: Gear Load Capacity Rating in Your Browser
What ISO 6336 actually calculates, how Method B (2019) derives bending and pitting safety factors, and how to run a full spur or helical gear rating online — with the K-factor breakdown laid bare instead of hidden inside a black box.
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VDI 2736 Gear Design Tool: Rating Plastic Gears the Right Way
Thermoplastic gears fail differently from steel — temperature, wear and deformation drive the design. Here's why plastic gears need their own standard, how VDI 2736 Method C and modified Method B rate them, and how to run a plastic gear rating online.
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A Modern, Web-Based Alternative to Legacy Gear Design Software
Legacy gear design packages are powerful but often overkill, expensive, or slow to get started with. Here's how a browser-based, AI-assisted approach lets you rate spur and helical gears to ISO 6336, VDI 2736 and DIN 3960 / ISO 21771 in minutes — no install, no dongle, free to start.
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