 The
program helped very much to reduce the development
cost of a new worm gear. Because the program simulates
the manufacturing process it was much less expensive
to do gear cutting iteration on the program using
a computer. For example, without the program it was
very difficult to predict how much do you need to
oversize the hob cutter in order to get a good localized
contact pattern. The program was able to show the
contact pattern for different misalignments of the
hob cutter or misalignments of the pinion.
This program was loaded with all
the possible option that you can dream about to have
in a worm gear manufacturing environment.
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This
software was the only worm gear software in 20-th
century that could visualize the motion of the worm
gear tooth contact in colors in 3 - d. 
