How to create perfect gears in Blender

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This covers the gear object in a lot of detail including its issues and how to solve them.
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@Bee-KL Ай бұрын

Thanks for sharing. After you have subdivided the gear from the extra objects, select the outer faces and assign them to a vertex group. There are existing groups, the one for the tips works as a base. After subdividing you have to ctrl- (select less) and you have your new group. Make a cylinder with a high vertex count which has exactly the same dimensions and shrinkwrap the vertex group to the cylinder. repeat that for the inner faces. I usually select those and after assigning them to a new vertex group, I duplicate and separate them to get the correct size for the 2nd cylinder.

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

Very nice use of vertex groups 👌🏼👍🏻 I'm not sure that would take much less time than creating your own from scratch but it's a very elegant approach 😁

@Bee-KL Ай бұрын

@@ArtisansofVaul That is true, if you use a bool addon. IMHO, with the free addon ND it is even easier compared to HOps, but not everyone uses such addons, and I still prefer the shrinkwarp, there is no clean up later on. For me shrink wrapping is easier, quicker and more precise than the manual approach with the relay. You were asking for an alternative for that approach and this is mine 🙂 If I would do them completely manually, I would rather do two mesh circles with the measurements I need, connect the correct edges for one tooth and do a circular array. That isn't hard to do, and if I need a pressure angle that might be the quickest and easiest way to get to the correct result. Getting the correct angle with a bool tool can be time consuming.

@richardokeeffe8375 Ай бұрын

Always love the multiple method approach dude

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

Thanks man 😁👍🏻

@doodlebob2000 Ай бұрын

Somewhat new to blender and recently made some gears for a project, absolute nightmare trying to make my own with the checker deselect, thank you so much for showing this other technique!

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

No worries Bob. Glad it's going to help!

@mind_of_a_darkhorse Ай бұрын

This is good to know and the gear tool tends to be a pain! Thanks for an easy-to-digest explanation of what all the options are on it!

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

No worries Darkhorse. Glad it was helpful.

@markghostrock 28 күн бұрын

There's an add-on called Precision Gears by Maker Tales (on both Gumroad and Blender Market), and the latest version (0.1.93) works in Blender 4.1.

@ArtisansofVaul 28 күн бұрын

Thanks so much. I'll check it out 😁👌🏼

@chrismartinartist Ай бұрын

Hi AV, two ways you could solve the outer curvature, there's a free add-on called Neltulz Edge Curve Plus, it adds loops while maintaing the curve. Or a more prcise way you could use the inner hole of a cylinder (like a Polo mint) as a Boolean cutter. Love the channel.

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

Thanks so much. I'll be sure to look that one up!

@flaminggorilla7492 Ай бұрын

Appreciate you making the video! Some great tips and will give it a shot for my Iron Hands. This request might be a bit more, but do you have any tips for making Eldar weapons? Not like the perfectly round ones, but some of the weirder shapes like shuriken pistols and what not? Thanks again mate!

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

I'd normally use sub D for most of the odd shapes. This video might be of use, it's a bit of an old one but it's eldar related and has a combination of rounded shapes but also flat parts: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8eYYNN-mtqyaY0.html

@flaminggorilla7492 Ай бұрын

@@ArtisansofVaul I'll give it a look! Thanks for all the excellent videos.

@emmamarx9284 Ай бұрын

Great video! Thanks! 🙏

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

My pleasure Emma. 😁👍🏻

@darrennew8211 Ай бұрын

Good description of the gear numbers, which probably make perfect sense to people who actually make machines that use gears. The guy who runs the "Keep Making" channel has a very sophisticated paid gear/bolt/screw generator add-on, specifically designed for working 3d-printed gears that are actually functional instead of just looking good. v=gKR1FHc7Iuc

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

Oh cool. I'm not sure your link posted correctly....

@darrennew8211 Ай бұрын

@@ArtisansofVaul I did that because youtube comments with links in them get deleted. :-)

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

@@darrennew8211 Ahh... ok

@cyrkielnetwork 28 күн бұрын

Just above Gears there's Math Function. You can use math to generate shapes, and you can find functions for different type of gears.

@ArtisansofVaul 28 күн бұрын

Oh cool? That's an awesome tip! I'm going to have to check that out. Thanks so much 👌🏼

@tacticalteamkilling6539 Ай бұрын

None of these methods are anything like real gears. Great technique for cosmetic gears for a video game or something, though.

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

What makes them not like gears specifically? It would be helpful to know.

@tacticalteamkilling6539 Ай бұрын

@@ArtisansofVaul There's a lot more math involved when it comes to functioning gears. The addon has the basics and could probably produce a working gear if it had better resolution and with a bit of playing around with the settings. There's a lot that can be improved with the addon though.

@georgb302 Ай бұрын

@@ArtisansofVaul just search for "gear calculation". You will find a lot technical stuff and some gear generators.

@83Ironside Ай бұрын

Couldn't you expand the length of the teeth using the built in mesh object and use an intersection boolean with a correctly sized cylinder to round them off?

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

That's a good use of the intersection boolean. That would definetly work but wouldn't solve the issue of the curves between each of the teeth. You could use a cut/knife project function slightly insides tjose to do the same and delete the verts from the original geometry too, but that's possibly a bit time consuming.

@stigmautomata Ай бұрын

Uh oh, here come the machinists

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

😂😂😂 I may have angered them 😨

@k4x4map46 Ай бұрын

noice!!

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

Cheers 😁👍🏻 Thanks for blitzing through so many videos.

@k4x4map46 Ай бұрын

@@ArtisansofVaul oh yeah its holiday so catching up!!!

@chuckysmith5255 Ай бұрын

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@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

😁👍🏻Cheers

@chuckysmith5255 Ай бұрын

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@slawomirmiazga3728 Ай бұрын

None of them will work actually. There is some guides how all the curve should go to make gear working. For art or decoration is OK, but for printing and working none at all.

@ArtisansofVaul Ай бұрын

👍🏻