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| ====== Overview ====== | ====== Overview ====== | ||
| - | Gears are one of those mechanical devices that everybody knows how they work, but until you need to incorporate on into your next project, you usually don't know the details behind all the theory of gear design. Gears are a fundamental simple machine that provide mechanical advantage, trading rotational speed for rotational force (or "torque"). | + | Gears are one of those mechanical devices that everybody knows how they work, but until you need to incorporate one into your next project, you usually don't know the details behind all the theory of gear design. Gears are a fundamental simple machine that provide mechanical advantage, trading rotational speed for rotational force (or "torque"). |
| For a detailed primer on gears, see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear| Wikipedia's Gear Page]] | For a detailed primer on gears, see [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gear| Wikipedia's Gear Page]] | ||
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| (Free, Windows, Linux, Mac) | (Free, Windows, Linux, Mac) | ||
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| + | Inkscape [[https://inkscape.org/en/|https://inkscape.org/en/]] | ||
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| + | Is a vector-drawing program that ships with a basic gear generation extension built in. Given that Inkscape is more "Art-centric" than mechanical design, it's use is good for a stating point, but you'll often have to import the result into another editor to tweak the resulting model. | ||
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| ===== Honorable mention ===== | ===== Honorable mention ===== | ||
| If your gear is purely cosmetic in nature, or what you need is a sprocket for driving a chain, check out [[http://www.idleamusements.com/?page_id=54 | Sprocketeer 2]] (Free, Windows Application, Web Application) | If your gear is purely cosmetic in nature, or what you need is a sprocket for driving a chain, check out [[http://www.idleamusements.com/?page_id=54 | Sprocketeer 2]] (Free, Windows Application, Web Application) | ||
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| + | If you're an OpenSCAD fan (and if not, you should be) There is also a nice list collection of gear, screw, and pulley creation scripts [[http://www.thingiverse.com/akaziuna/collections/openscad-gear-scripts/page:1|here]] (We have not tested most of these at Anibit, so use at your own risk). | ||
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