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involute or cycloid option

Open Neon22 opened this issue 11 years ago • 2 comments

What's involved in adding an option to draw cycloids instead of involutes. I know cycloids are not as good for high speed gears as they slide. But for pin gears they work well, especially for gears with a very small number of teeth (where involutes do not work as well). I'm inspired by Mattias's video for his excellent program: V1 walkthrough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hf9NoDT5nDk&feature=youtu.be V3 features: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MycFQKnZkA (wish he exported svg)

Neon22 avatar Mar 23 '14 21:03 Neon22

Sprocket gears appear to be cycloid profiles. That might mean we could indicate an involute, cycloid, pin, or sprocket gear as a type to initially choose from. Then a spur or ring gear. I'm assuming a sprocket is some kind of special case of a cycloid.

Neon22 avatar Mar 27 '14 00:03 Neon22

I'll put this to the back of the queue. As long as we still have issues with involute gears, I'll focus on these.

jnweiger avatar Apr 07 '14 00:04 jnweiger