Precision Gears Lite [ Addon ]

TLDR read the bold text.

This is the Free feature reduced version of Precision Gears a blender addon developed to bring an array of mathematically accurate involute gears to the precision world of Blender. Not only that, it's all incapsulated inside the closest thing to a faux "parametric" system, giving you the ability to change your gears on the fly.

Minimum version: Blender 2.92

- PLEASE NOTE -

This is a "beta" release some pretty big & exciting changes will be coming to the paid addon in the next coming months. Plus a whole bunch of videos and a wiki eventually. For the time being, if you find any consistent bugs that you are able to replicate or have any future development ideas I would love to hear from you. The best place is in the maker tales discord in the Precision Gears channel link: HERE. Alternatively, you can fill in this form: Here not reviewed as often.

I'm currently developing the gear "presets" if you have any ideas of how I should standardize these I would love to know your thoughts.

To get all the features that are listed below head on other to the full version of the addon linked: HERE.

Gears & Features currently available:
Those marked with a (*) are included in this lite version.

Gears

• Spur Gear *
• Helical Gear
• Herringbone Gear
• Rack Gear
• Internal Gear
• Internal Herringbone Gear
• Internal Helical Gear
• Bevel Gear
• Spiral Bevel Gear
• Worm Gear

Features

• Center Extrusions
• Set Screws
• Cross Bore *
• Round Subtract Bore (Set Screw) *
• Round Additice Bore (Key) *
• Polygon Bore ( Triangel / Hex ect.) *
• Bore Previews *
• Preset Creation
• Global Scaling *

Soon to come:

• Gears to keep material assignments when changing parameters *
• Internal gears outside perimeters perfectly round
• Cross bore. XY parameters should be the total length of bore extrusion *
• Gear face chamfering/bevelling from tip (Spur, Internal, Helical, Herringbone, Rack)
• Tooth crowning (Spur, Internal)
• Tooth flank tip relief (Spur, Internal, Helical, Herringbone, Rack)
• Tooth undercut (Spur, Helical, Herringbone)
• Rounded tooth tips/reliefs (Spur, Internal, Helical, Herringbone, Rack)
• Tooth flank base relief (Rack)