My first attempt at cutting a wooden gear on the CNC router. The gear was created with Matthias Wandel’s gear generator program, and the gcode was created with CamBam.
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Ron, this is impressive! I’d like to learn to use the router one of these days…. Maybe I can get a lesson soon.
Not sure if it’s of interest, but I happened across this “Involute Gears” plugin for Google Sketchup today:
http://www.ohyeahcad.com/download/
(Disclaimer: I know almost nothing about gears.)