welcome to the gear playground!
I like to make things with gears in them, and this is a tool made to design and experiment with simple involute gears.
It provides myself with the ability to export any designs for cutting on a laser cutter or CNC machine. In the future I hope to add support for other file tipes, specifically DXF format, but for now SVG works for my purposes.
There are a few other tools out there that do something similar to this, though none of them did exactly what I wanted and for free. So if you were in the same boat as me, you may be in luck now!
This page will give you an idea of how the 'module' setting of a gear works, as well as different pressure angles. Theoretically a gear produced with this tool of a given module 'M' and pressure angle 'P' should work with other gears with the same values, but I have not tried that. The tool provides the ability to include those values upon export so you don't forget them later like I tend to do unless they are printed on a gear.
If you have questions about any of the settings, you can hover your mouse over any of the slider labels and you will get a brief explanation as to what you are changing.
If you have other questions or suggestions, please use the contact form here to get in touch!
You may learn more from the code, fork it or do whatever you want here: https://github.com/localhuman/gears
Localhuman Industries Gears and Etc by Thomas Saunders is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0
