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Traditionally, the development of automotive drivelines incorporating hypoid or spiral bevel gearing using Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) methods have included the analysis of gear contact patterns independent of the influence of the flexible members of the driveline such as the housing and shafting. The gear tooth form development typically occurs using various non-linear gear contact solutions available on the market, but the final refinement of the gear itself usually must wait until the actual hardware can be fabricated and tested in the driveline system. This behavior may result in several costly and time consuming iterations of testing, modifying, and re-testing a gearset, since the up-front CAE tools did not account for the flexibility of the driveline system, nor factors such as bearing pre-load effects, thermal growth, driveline torque levels, dynamic modes of the shafting, and many other important factors.