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3.2.4 cylinder_tube(height, radius, wall, center = false).

3.2.3 oval_tube(height, rx, ry, wall, center = false).

3.2.2 oval_prism(height, rx, ry, center = false).

3.2.1 cone(height, radius, center = false).

3.1.1 regular_polygon(sides, radius), or in older libraries, reg_polygon(sides, radius).

You can also bevel them back a little instead if you prefer. Just checking the file, the last cut thing at the bottom needs to be manually adjusted… That’s a trick for 3d printing gears, don’t print the first layer of the teeth as it’ll leave a ridge. This is one of my generation files - I save a copy for each gear I’m making as Configurations give lots of issues (and are hard to manage long-term). These days I use a solidworks model that generates most helical and spur gears but I haven’t had a need for bevel ones in a while so haven’t made a file for that. The shortcut most generators make works well enough due to the small deviation from the correct form and more because they often only model gears with similar diameters (90 degree 1:1 ratio gearsets)Ī long time ago I made a povray library that allowed me to make bevel helical gears though I could never, at the time, create offset bevel helical (hypoid?) gears like seen in the rear diff of trucks - that was my goal for a while. Of course, if you scale your involute points or curves using an exponential based on the projection, you get the same outcome. To do it absolutely correctly you do spherical projection rather than drawing on a plane.

Note that this is a very good way of designing any gear - just slow. Once you have that, you can array the cut profile… note, though perfect I do not suggest doing it as… it’s a really slow process.

You then do a subtraction of all of the models along the movement curve into the blank. Take the gear that you’re going to be meshing with, locate it to where it’ll mesh, then array it so that the movement of the tooth against the blank gear matches the movement exactly. The other way to model it is more computationally costly but produces perfect results. You then have to apply a small bevel (say 2mm on one side and 0.4mm on the other) so that it narrows either end of the tooth profile and then, if you’re feeling fancy, round off the interface between the tooth and the bevel, but printing will do a bit of that too so you may not have to. You then will use a turned cut to select only the meshing portion of the gear. The first is to model your involute curve on a plane and loft it to a point, same as you’re doing. What the gear becomes is a compound sphere segment - okay, that’s just a fancy way of saying it’s rounded. In truth, the tooth model is very similar to an involute gear by fixed at 45 degrees and when the tooth is looked at on-end it’s curved in at either end of the tooth area. Okay, all that said as soon as you leave the bevel involute gear model, you can easily make one. If you were to replace the gears with rollers they would be two cones that come to a point at the same location.

The correct way to make involute bevel gears like this is to make the two gears have the same vanishing point. The trouble with this gear is that it’s not actually a valid involute tooth profile due to the smaller gears meshing with a larger gear which already has it’s angles set by a 90 degree mesh with a gear of the same size.