| URL | Description |
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| Tutorial: How to Model A Bevel Gear Drive in Blender 3D | In this tutorial, you will learn how to model a mating pair of bevel gears with involute tooth profiles, curved teeth and shafts intersecting at an arbitrary angle. Also in this tutorial, the gear wheels are tested for compatibility using Blender's Rigid Body Physics engine. |
| Tutorial: How to Model Geometrically Correct (Involute) Gears in Blender | Creating a pair of geometrically correct mating gears is not exactly a trivial task. The sides of gear teeth are not curved arbitrarily. Most real-life gears use a mathematical curve, called "involute curve" to keep the pressure vector between the teeth constant. This tutorial will teach you how to crate a pair of perfectly meshing gears using Blender in just a few minutes. It will also teach you how to animate the gears using drivers. |
| Tutorial: How to Model Globoid (aka Throated) Worm Drive in Blender | In this tutorial, you will learn how to create a globoid worm shaft and its mating gear wheel in Blender 3D, and test their compatibility using Blender's Rigid Body Physics engine. |
| Tutorial: How to Model a Hypocycloid Drive in Blender | In a hypocycloid (or simply cycloid) speed reducer, a flower-shaped gear called cycloid disk moves around a stationary ring of round pins in a cycloidal motion, driven by an eccentric bearing or cam connected to the input shaft. Radial holes on the face of the cycloid disk in turn drive the pins of the output shaft. Hypocycloid drives are widely used in the industry due to their excellent characteristics, such as wide range of gear ratios, compact size, smooth transmission, high efficiency, high overload capacity, low noise, long service life, and compact design. With the help of our tutorial, you can design your own hypocycloid drive in Blender in a matter of minutes. |
| Tutorial: How to Model a Hypoid Gear Drive in Blender | Hypoid gears are similar to bevel gears but the gear axes of a hypoid pair do not intersect. Hypoid gear drives offer high gear ratios, excellent efficiency, and good sturdiness of the assembly. |
| Tutorial: How to Model a Planetary Gear Mechanism in Blender | In this tutorial, you will learn how to model a planetary gear drive with Blender 3D, and test it with Blender's Rigid Body Physics engine. The gears feature involute tooth profiles and herringbone shapes. We recommend watching our Involute Gear tutorial at Involute Gear first. |