Your parts
Save a shaft, a bearing set-up, a gear pair, a ball screw, a spring or a bolted joint to your parts, and insert it into another project: onto a shaft whose seats fit, or between two shafts at the pair's centre distance.
Your parts is a library of the parts you use again and again: a standard shaft, a spindle's bearing arrangement, a gear stage. Save one from any project and insert it into another, where it gets ids of its own and can be changed like anything you built there.
Saving a part
Save to my parts… is in the File menu, on the shaft tabs over the shaft view, in a gear pair's inspector and, for a bearing on a shaft, in the bearing's inspector. Choose what to save, give it a name (up to 80 characters, one name per part) and, if you like, a note:
- Shaft: the shaft with its sections, supports, loads, material, settings, strength check and the bearings on its supports.
- Bearings of a shaft (a bearing set-up): the shaft's supports with their bearings, so their seats, fits, preload and arrangement too. The shaft's sections come along only to show what the set-up sat on.
- Gear pair, ball screw, spring or bolted joint: that item. A gear pair remembers where it was mounted.
Gear pairs, drives and housings stay with their project when you save a shaft: the dialog says what is left out. A part of a name you have already is replaced only after you confirm.
Inserting a part
My parts… (in the File menu and on the shaft tabs) lists your parts: search them by name, note or what they hold, or show one kind only. Choose a part, say where it goes and Insert into project:
- A shaft becomes a further shaft of the project (in an empty project, its shaft). Mount gear pairs or drives on it to place it in the gearbox.
- A bearing set-up goes onto the shaft you choose, its first support where you say (where it was when you leave the position empty). Replace the shaft's supports (on unless you turn it off) removes the shaft's supports and their bearings first; without it, a shaft that has supports takes no set-up. It goes on only where every bearing sits on a seat of its bore; otherwise the dialog lists each bearing and the diameter under it, and the positions for the first support that fit.
- A gear pair goes between the pinion shaft and the wheel shaft you choose, or unmounted. Two shafts coupled already by other gears or drives must stand at the pair's centre distance; otherwise the dialog says how far off they are.
- A ball screw, spring or bolted joint goes into its module.
Where an id the part had is used in the project already, the part's item gets the next free one (a second bearing BR3, say). Saving a shaft leaves the gear pairs, drives and rotors on it behind, and says so. Inserting is one step that Undo (Ctrl+Z) takes back. A part saved by an older Axomek is brought up to date on the way in, as an old project file is; one saved by a newer Axomek waits until you update.
Rename… changes a part's name and note, Delete… removes it after you confirm.
Where your parts are kept
Signed in, your parts are kept with your account, so the web app, the desktop app and axm share them; signed out, they stay on this computer or in this browser, and go to the first account that signs in there. Your devices never merge their copies: each sends what it changed to our server, which merges the changes of all your devices in the order they arrive (of two changes to one part, the later wins; a part deleted on one device stays deleted), so a part saved offline goes up when you are back online. Deleting your account deletes them. See Privacy.
axm parts --own lists them, axm parts --own --show "<name>" shows one, and axm insert <file> "<name>" inserts one (--shaft, --position, --wheel-shaft, --wheel-position, --replace-supports say where); see The command line and agents.