Macro FCGear

Description

Additional Workbench to create different types of gears, involute gear, involute rack, cycloide gear, bevel gear.

Install

• git clone https://github.com/looooo/FCGear.git
• link or copy the FCgear/gear into /freecad/Mod (sudo ln -s (path_to_FCGear)/gear (path_to_freecad)/Mod)

Note:

• if you download zip,unzip,and
• just copy the whole outermost directory FCGear into /freecad/Mod
  • in Windows must show hidden files, otherwise Mod is hidden
  • in Linux usually Mod path is usr/lib/freecad/Mod. You must open .Mod as administrator and you must give access permissions to all files of "gear". You can also copy to the local Mod: ~/.FreeCAD/Mod
• since FCGear requires "NUMPY", which is only included since FreeCAD 0.15.4671, it won't run on older versions of FreeCAD

Create a gear

• go to the gear workbench
• click on gear symbol
• change parameters

Links

• FCGear
• Forum topic