drawing gears in freecad

[Scott Kovaleski]

Anyone (looking at you Brad) know how to draw an involute gear in freecad, or know of a tutorial or script to do such?

[Brad Collette]

This is what I used for the gears in the CGW logo.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/free-cad/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=3704&hilit=Gear+generator

Page one of the thread. Second post by neonata. Paste the code into a new macro and run it.

On May 12, 2013 6:31 PM, "Scott Kovaleski" <scott.k...@gmail.com> wrote:

Anyone (looking at you Brad) know how to draw an involute gear in freecad, or know of a tutorial or script to do such?

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[Tipton, Peter A.]

Scott,

Take a look at this URL:

http://www.woodgears.ca/gear_cutting/template.html

Peter

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Anyone (looking at you Brad) know how to draw an involute gear in freecad, or know of a tutorial or script to do such?

[Scott Kovaleski]

Thanks Brad, I'll take a look.

Thanks Peter, I found that guy's website right after we talked on Thursday. The gear template generator was pretty cool, but I couldn't figure out how to export something I could use in a CAD program, so that ultimately I could make my CNC machine cut it.

That said though, there was some awesome wooden machine inspiration on the woodgears.ca site. The marble adding machines look fun.