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involute or cycloid option #11

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Neon22 opened this issue Mar 23, 2014 · 2 comments
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involute or cycloid option #11

Neon22 opened this issue Mar 23, 2014 · 2 comments

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@Neon22
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Neon22 commented Mar 23, 2014

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)

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Neon22 commented Mar 27, 2014

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.

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jnweiger commented Apr 7, 2014

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.

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