Making wooden gears on the laser?

Laser
#1

Does anyone know a place to get ready made drawings of gears that I can use to make wooden or plastic gears on the lasers?

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#3

also, autodesk has a gear generator in it, if you have access to that program

#4

Thank you! Are there others? That one is great but doesn’t have anything to do planetary gears or racks.

#5

You might want to try this one: http://hessmer.org/gears/InvoluteSpurGearBuilder.html

I personally have not used the dxf generation portion of this simulator.

#6

Isn’t wooden gears what made Matthias famous?
https://woodgears.ca

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#7

I believe so.

Matthias Wandel has a wonderful woodworking youtube channel. And a shop filled with wooden stationary power tools.

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#8

First one I found when I went looking, but it lets you print the gears, but not download an image file of them to put on the laser.

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#9

Print to PDF (or other “portable document format”) might do the trick…
Also, he offers his run-local program
https://woodgears.ca/gear/index.html
with eval
https://woodgears.ca/gear/GearGenerator3.exe
which the website claims is “exactly the same except the view is distorted”
which appears to offer export to dxf, svg, pdf, among others.
I think $26.00 to support Matthias isn’t THAT ridiculous, if the eval does what you need…