Gears

[Greg Holt]

Art Fennerty (mach3 author) is developing a program called Gearotic.

I have been having a play with it.

Some helical cut gears.

I have never previously tried to cut gears other than in 2D profile. These are done with a 4th axis.

Greg

[Bob Savage]

Very cool!

[Greg Holt]

Tried some knuckle gears.

Surprised how well they mesh.

Greg

[Jim Underwood]

Ok.. the first one was awesome enough to make me jealous....

The second one was just pure disgusting...



Seriously though, that's pretty cool. Show us some more...

[Nicholas Bukky]

Wicked cool Greg!
Is that an addon wizard for mach then or something seperate he has comeup with?
It is still in beta correct?

Thanks for sharing,
Nick

[Rob Wright]

The original writer of Mach3 wrote this as a separate program:

http://gearotic.com/

pretty reasonable for what it is IMHO

[Jim Underwood]

Sure makes me wish I had 4th axis at work.

[Michael Kowalczyk]

Hey Greg,
Very nice. I am trying to find a good gear plug in for Rhino. Found one but the link disappeared. Found a stand alone app- Geargenerator- that makes the gears but you have to export them one at a time, so you have to recalculate centers each time to make sure there is no interference and a proper mesh.

What material are you using?

Thanks and ...

[Greg Holt]

Michael

I found a Rhinoscript here. I do not know what it is like.

http://www.rayflectar.com/Rhino/Rhin...ts-Gallery.htm

So far I have only cut a few gears out of corian scraps.

Next is to try in steel.

Greg

[Greg Holt]

For the kids.

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[Russ Revels]

Those gears are really cute. I'm sure the kids will have a lot of fun playing with them. It is hard to believe that the odd shaped ones will work although I have seen the video of similar ones working fine.

Nice work Greg.

Russ

[Nicholas Bukky]

Greg,
Very cool for the kids!

So it is not just for 4th axis stuff \? Those look like you cut flat on the table.

Thanks,
Nick

[Michael Kowalczyk]

Hey Greg,
Those are cool gears. Kids love a Variety of colors.
What are you using to design and prove your gear assembly?

I tried the Gear plug-in for Rhino before but it seamed unable to get what I wanted but I will try again as I get more familiar with it. I did find a stand alone app "Gear Generator" but it only exports one gear at a time and no center hole. So you have to calculate and position them separately.

Found a simple gear tool in my TurboCad Pro platinum V16 but not very flexible.

BobCad v21 has a gear & v23 has a gear, sprocket and roller cam tool and I will play with it and watch the training videos to see how flexible it is.

Once again I appreciate your sharing ,inspiring and challenging us.

Thanks and ...

[Greg Holt]

What are you using to design and prove your gear assembly?

http://gearotic.com/

Art Fennerty who wrote Mach3 is developing it.

This is what has inspired me to play around with gears just recently.

Greg

[Michael Simpson Virgina]

That is one cool program. A while back I purchased a program called involute. Gave you all kinds of control on your gear design.

Gearotic makes involute look like a toy. I just ordered a copy. Waiting eagerly for my licence so I can cut my first gear train.