Game Changing Gears In Blender: Precision Gears
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Published 2023-08-04
Bringing powerful CAD Gear Creation to blender with the Precision Gears addon.
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Precision gears brings powerful CAD Gear Creation to blender. It let's you make "almost" any gear inside of blender and rig it together for animation plus it's all as parametric as it can be. For blender 3.5. Be it for laser cutting, 3D printing or some amazing mech model you can now get real-world accurate Involute gears in blender. These include but are not limited too; Rack Gear, Spur Gear, Bevel Gear, Crown Gear, GT2 Blet Gears & Worm Gear. Dive deep into the possibilities of precision modelling in blender 3.5.
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Setting up blender precision: • How To Setup Blender 3.0 In Millimetr...
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Check out : youtube.com/@shiura
Gear diameter calculator: evolventdesign.com/pages/blank-calc
Tooth count x Module = Diameter of the pitch circle
Planatery Geat Calculator: www.thecatalystis.com/gears/
Ring Gear Tooth Count = (2 x Planet Gears tooth count) + Sun Gear tooth count
Bevel Gear Calculator: www.daycounter.com/Calculators/Bevel-Gear-Calculat…
Given:
N1 = Number of teeth on gear 1
N2 = Number of teeth on gear 2
α = Angle of transmission (in degrees)
You can calculate the pitch angle (β) for each gear using these formulas:
For Gear 1:
β1 = arctan[(N1/N2) * tan(α)]
For Gear 2:
β2 = α - β1
Remember that "arctan" is the inverse tangent function and "tan" is the tangent function, which you can compute with a scientific calculator.
These formulas take into account the transmission angle and the number of teeth on each gear to determine the appropriate pitch angle for each gear in the pair. Remember to ensure that all angles are in the same units (either all in degrees or all in radians) when performing the calculations.
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Time Stamps:
0:00 - What Is Precision Gears
00:36 - How To Get, Install & Update Precision Gears
02:11 - Must Have Blender Precision Settings
02:53 - Precision Gears Overview
09:39 - Deeper Dive Into Precision Gears
10:47 - Gear Types & Presets
13:08 - Gear Parameters
18:17 - Tooth Modifications
20:26 - Bore Holes, Extrusions & Set Screws
25:18 - General Settings
26:56 - Understanding Gear Generation
30:16 - Planetary Gear Set
32:27 - Bevel & Screw Bevel Gear Rigging
37:23 - Precision Gears Must Know Ex
All Comments (21)
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This is huge! I can’t even image the amount of time and work it took to build this. Thank you for creating such an amazing tool!
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OMG your precision gears brought back my school days (40-45 yeats ago) of technical drawing and engineering of gears. Very well done. Your plugin is a teaching aid for gears. Absolutely awesome
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This will greatly help because I'm wanting to work with precision mechanical 3D models and this will make it easier! Thanks a lot for showing it!
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I am at the beginning of this video, but I have to tell you, that I use the free version nearly every day. It is absolutely the standard for blender. I will buy the full add-on soon and looking forward for the rigging!
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You made me fall in love with gears! Thank you good Sir!
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Thing that I didn't expect from blender but I really need it... Thanks a lot...
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OMG, this is amazing. Not just from an animation standpoint but I have been struggling to do this for my miniatures. Never mind them working, that is an added bonus.
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This addon is practically perfect. 👏👏👏
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Wow, that's cool! Thanks for sharing this!
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I've been eyeing up this add-on for a while. I finally purchased it today and WOW! The amount of work that must have gone into this is phenomenal. Relatively straightforward to use and no "post processing" required. It's generated a perfect mesh, ready for 3d printing with no flipped normals and or repair work to do. 1st herringbone gear has almost finished printing! I've tried other gear generating add-ons previously but given up on them all. For anyone considering Precision Gears, Get it! you won't be disappointed! Thank you for making such an awesome Tool!
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WOW. Hell YEA ! Doing it right ! Good work !! This will b SOoOoO helpful
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A big deep dive into gears of all types would druve me nuts.
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I'm overwhelmed. Very cool. Are you planning any gear projects?
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Wow! Fantastic work, and legendary video too. Can't wait to get home and try it. Amd the price seems very fair.
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Wow what a great plugin looks real useful might try it out next time I need to do something with gears, I just used some openSCAD project in the past to create gears, then import. Actually a plugin that could render openscad files and show "customizer" interface would be really dope, wonder how hard it would be to do. Only blender development I ever did was change one line of code in the gltf exporter.
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Fantastic work!
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Man if you cut out all the Blender stuff this would be an incredibly good course on gear design/mechanics for engineers and industrial maintenance techs! Definitely worth while for the uninitiated.
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I just bought this and I'm all up for a gear making deep dive! Would be great 🔥
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Total love it but i am wondering if you have any plans of adding stuff like gear ratchets with latches?
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Finally! I don't need to learn another 3D software like FreeCAD, because I am fluent in Blender and do everything in Blender for 3D printing :D All I had struggles was making 3D gears from gear generator pictures, sweet! Thanks, worse the money
