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Gear & Power Transmission Component Estimating, From Blank to Finished Gear

Milled and turned features priced from your own machines, with a consistent, structured place to enter the gear-cutting and heat-treat steps that don’t come from a toolpath.
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The Problem

Gear and power transmission parts combine machined features (bores, keyways, hubs) with specialized gear-cutting operations — priced in different ways, and easy to reconcile inconsistently from job to job.
Heat treatment is often a make-or-break step for gear performance, but it’s typically tracked as an afterthought rather than a costed part of the estimate.
Shaft and gear-blank machining, gear cutting, and finishing grinding can each be quoted by a different method, with nothing tying them into one number for the customer.

How Micro Estimate Estimate Gear & Power Transmission Work

Real cycle time for milled and turned features.

For the milling and turning done on a gear blank or shaft — bores, keyways, hubs, shoulders — Micro3D reads the 3D file and uses SolidWorks’ Automatic Feature Recognition to identify those features. CAMWorks generates a toolpath from your shop’s own machines, tools, and speeds/feeds, producing real, shop-specific cycle time for that portion of the job.

Structured entry for gear cutting and gear grinding.

Hobbing, shaping, and gear grinding are specialized operations that don’t have an automated way to read time off a drawing, so Micro Estimate gives estimators a consistent, structured place to enter them — instead of pricing gear-cutting time from memory.

Heat treatment as a costed outside service.

Heat treatment is priced through the same outside-services library used across the platform, so it’s part of the estimate instead of an afterthought.

What's Included

Automatic Feature Recognition and CAMWorks toolpath generation for milled/turned blank and shaft features

Structured cost entry for gear hobbing, shaping, and gear grinding

Outside-services library for heat treatment and other subcontracted operations

Material libraries for gear-grade steels and alloys

Configurable labor rates, overhead, and margin rules

Customer quote letters, cost breakdowns, shop travelers, and routing documentation

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Who It’s For

Shops producing gears, gearboxes, shafts, and power transmission components — whether as a dedicated gear shop or as one operation inside a larger machining or assembly job.
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we’ll route you based on which processes your work involves (Michael for CNC/MicroExpress, Leonard for fabrication and welding)