helical gears

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more gears, fast

Submitted by aplesch on Wed, 11/11/2015 - 01:28
4 gears

I updated the involute (curved teeth), helical gear generation procedure to use Extrusion rather than IndexedFaceSets. Extrusion automatically supports the back and front faces of the gears, and a smooth appearance by producing a mesh with points shared by triangles. So the logo code could be streamlined and therefore is now much faster generating gears.

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Extrusion helical gears

Submitted by Andy on Wed, 04/11/2015 - 01:18
Extrusion helical gears

I recently just included Extrusion object into VRMath2 Editor and started to experiment its applications in creating 3D objects. It is quite easy to use Extrusion to create Spur Gears, but here I am showing how it can be used to created Helical Gears.

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helical gears

Submitted by aplesch on Mon, 26/10/2015 - 04:09
3 helical gears

The real advantage of gear modelling in 3d is that gears in a mesh do not have to parallel each other. It is posible to demonstrate how gears can transfer rotation (and forces) to orientations other than the driving gear. This kind of transfer is possible by use of helical gears.