Now, plunge shaving process is becoming a common method in gearing manufacture. Serration design and parameters adjustment for shaving cutter require considerable experiences and time. By combining Visual Basic and Solidworks API, this study proposes a new method to quickly simulate the shaving process and get final work gear profile easily.

Plunge shaving cutter has many advantages compared with other types of shaving cutter. Without transverse motion, the shaved work gear profile is primarily affected by serration arrangement. It causes more difficult to design the cutter than others. In this study, by modeling the meshing of shaving cutter and work gear, the shaving process is simulated by Solidworks API to get the shaved work gear profile. Based on this simulation method, optimum serration design for shaving cutter is carried out to find the best serration parameters.