Searching the internet, I found a lot of information about gears, but only a few snips of code on how to draw/make them but none using C#, so I started collecting information and made this program DrawInvolute.
I needed a couple of wooden gears for a small hobby project. The Superellipse to make some fun looking non circular gears. The data files and the images saved can be used for illustrations and templates for cutting gears. Youtube: Making Wooden Gears with a Router shows another way of doing this. The waste cut marked with yellow is the best approximation to the involute curve. Make Wooden Gears? Sure, Here's how by Edwin W. Popular Science – November 1961 page 144-148 To remove waste material in gear blanks (disc) before cutting the involute curve, using the method in: Get values to cut the gear blank (outside circle), base circle. Learn more about gears by using the program and looking into the source code DrawInvolute can be used to find best "Waste cut" for a specific gearĮxplore the details of the involute used to form the gear tooth
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