This Macro has been converted in to a workbench called [[FCGear Workbench]]. Please use the workbench instead of this macro as it is actively maintained.
{{Macro |Name= Macro FCGear |Icon=FCGear_workbench_icon.svg |Description=Additional Workbench to create different types of gears. |Author=looooo |Version=1.0 |Date=2015-10-27 }}
Additional Workbench to create different types of gears, involute gear, involute rack, cycloide gear, bevel gear.
FCGear
- git clone https://github.com/looooo/freecad.gears.git
- link or copy the freecad.gears into /.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
- go to the gear workbench
- click on gear symbol
- change parameters
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