This is huge! I can’t even image the amount of time and work it took to build this. Thank you for creating such an amazing tool!

OMG your precision gears brought back my school days (40-45 yeats ago) of technical drawing and engineering of gears. Very well done. Your plugin is a teaching aid for gears. Absolutely awesome

This will greatly help because I'm wanting to work with precision mechanical 3D models and this will make it easier! Thanks a lot for showing it!

I am at the beginning of this video, but I have to tell you, that I use the free version nearly every day. It is absolutely the standard for blender. I will buy the full add-on soon and looking forward for the rigging!

You made me fall in love with gears! Thank you good Sir!

Thing that I didn't expect from blender but I really need it... Thanks a lot...

OMG, this is amazing. Not just from an animation standpoint but I have been struggling to do this for my miniatures. Never mind them working, that is an added bonus.

@TolisOnLine

11 ай бұрын

Exacly. Now they look real... they are real.

Wow, that's cool! Thanks for sharing this!

WOW. Hell YEA ! Doing it right ! Good work !! This will b SOoOoO helpful

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This addon is practically perfect. 👏👏👏

I've been eyeing up this add-on for a while. I finally purchased it today and WOW! The amount of work that must have gone into this is phenomenal. Relatively straightforward to use and no "post processing" required. It's generated a perfect mesh, ready for 3d printing with no flipped normals and or repair work to do. 1st herringbone gear has almost finished printing! I've tried other gear generating add-ons previously but given up on them all. For anyone considering Precision Gears, Get it! you won't be disappointed! Thank you for making such an awesome Tool!

@estebanmartinez9143

10 ай бұрын

Hello dear @RogueElectron, can you share with me your email adress, I would like to contact you

I used the lite Version for some time now, today i bought the Full Version, and i enjoy it. And i have some suggestions - play the rig should work by rotating the driver(just like the native driver/driven in blender). For planets there could be a duplicate gear, so you have to manage only one planet. Especially for 3d printing a overall bevel at top and bottom would be nice(now possible in many parameters)

A big deep dive into gears of all types would druve me nuts.

Fantastic work!

Wow! Fantastic work, and legendary video too. Can't wait to get home and try it. Amd the price seems very fair.

I just bought this and I'm all up for a gear making deep dive! Would be great 🔥

Wow what a great plugin looks real useful might try it out next time I need to do something with gears, I just used some openSCAD project in the past to create gears, then import. Actually a plugin that could render openscad files and show "customizer" interface would be really dope, wonder how hard it would be to do. Only blender development I ever did was change one line of code in the gltf exporter.

this is fantastic...isto é fantastico...

Any chance of spherical gears being added? Or is that already a possibility through tweaking the settings?

Perfectly what I required. downloaded the lite to try it out then 10mins later payed for the full version. well worth the money to save my hours of learning how to model each type of gear. Thanks for creating the plugin! :)

@spacepirateivynova

4 ай бұрын

1 day ago... just wondering if you got it working in blender 4.1 or are you using an older version to avoid the auto_smooth attribute issue?

@jamesandcamera

4 ай бұрын

@@spacepirateivynova I am using 3.6.4 I guess I havent updated since I installed Blender.

What an awesome add on!! Would it be possible to add double envelope worm gears?

Total love it but i am wondering if you have any plans of adding stuff like gear ratchets with latches?

I'm overwhelmed. Very cool. Are you planning any gear projects?

@Keep-Making

Жыл бұрын

You bet i am 😉

This is a phenomenal tool and tutorial! Question: If I wanted to add beams into the center of a gear to connect two separate suites of gears is there a way to do that with this tool?

Finally! I don't need to learn another 3D software like FreeCAD, because I am fluent in Blender and do everything in Blender for 3D printing :D All I had struggles was making 3D gears from gear generator pictures, sweet! Thanks, worse the money

Hello, is there any way to auto align the vertices on the bore hole so that the edges coming from the gears align with the vertices from the bore inner faces? Great plugin!!!

Hi so cool! Will this work with Shift knobs? Thanks!

How do I get the "precision Gears" to show in the object properties window? I think it was there earlier, but has now disappeared?

Great job :D Just bought it on the blendermarket and it´s super helpful. I have a question, is it possible to parent other objects to the instanced gears etc. without boolean it to the original gear?

It looks like this video is NOT for the free/light version which I use. For example I don't find any "rigging" option, which make it impossible follow the video.

I can't get the scale to match the project scale. the measurements are different in the Object properties panel. I've tried transform and delta transform scales and changing the project unit scale

So much math is under the hood, that is so exciting! The rigging is just crazy! It would be nice to have a vertex on center of every teeth on the radius for snapping reasons, if you don't use the rigging.

Man if you cut out all the Blender stuff this would be an incredibly good course on gear design/mechanics for engineers and industrial maintenance techs! Definitely worth while for the uninitiated.

@Keep-Making

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 😊 Ya I do plan on making and indepth gear video one day as they are just immense

Do you have a tutorial on how to make things live-simulate animated gear creations? I want to make a whole bunch of gears turn in funky ways with only the one driveshaft input.

Cycloidal and harmonic drives would be a great add. I have a python script that I've written that will generate a proper cycloidal gear but it lacks the animation, rigging, and nice user interface you've added. If you decide to add cycloidal gears, and want that script, let me know and I'll send it to you.

@Keep-Making

11 ай бұрын

Would love to add it in the future. By all means if your happy to share it send it over to hello@makertales.com and I'll see if it can be implemented in the next round of development

@MakerTales there is an objection, that the tooth-geometry of the ring gear isn't right - so the question is, is it the same geometry as the spur gear or has it its own derivation?

I really like this. I don't use a ton of gears in my work flow, that being said for $8 you have a revolutionary tool here. There is no real software out there that has the power and ability of this plugin. I can see many uses for this in 3D printing and making accurate models for prototyping.

Worm cut gears are what you are supposed to use with worm gears, as they lean onto the worm gear on a larger surface. Ofc. they are harder to make. And if you want perfection the length of worm gear teeth should vary along its axis to allow it to engage more teeth on the worm cut gear simultaneously - sorry i am not up to my english jargon so name doesnt jumps to mind immediately.

I am making a planetary system, I would like my inner gear to be stationary, meaning that the planet gear shouldnt move at all, any ideas how id go about doing this as I dont know how to keep the middle one stationary and have the planet gear rotate around the middle one

There seems to be an issue in blender 4.0 Adding any gear will only create a plane unresponsive to any changes in the object settings. This is on an M1 OSX. Works fine in 3.6 though.

help me please!!I purchased this. I'm surprised that it works exactly as shown in the video. But I have one question. Can't these gears be used as objects? Although color Materials can be controlled, it does not follow the rotation of the gear. . Can I only use it for simulation purposes? I would like to introduce it to my modeled character.

that looks absolutely breathtaking! question: is there a way of calculating the volume of a non-standard solid in Blender?

@theothergameygamer

11 ай бұрын

Have you tried the "volume" statistic option of the built in 3DPrint addon?

@akeel_1701

11 ай бұрын

@@theothergameygamer hmmm, ok I'll give that a go, thanks

I do have some issues. First, my camera and view get dark so I cannot see the spur gears and the rig anymore; the same when I render the scene. And second, I would like to add an axis to a spur gear, which should rotate as a compound one. (I am making a mechanical clock movement). How? Third, I know that a spur gear (in my case) makes exactly one round per minute, how do I set up the "use time" settings that this matches? Overwise, I am very impressed by the addon. Worth buying!

@Keep-Making

11 ай бұрын

1. I have lots on videos on how to use blender maybe take a look at a few of the navigation ones as I'm not sure what is going on for you. You can also join the discord and see if other makers can help you out on things going "dark"? 2. Can't see the rig and spur gear, agian sounds like blender navigation. 3. Please refer to 37:29 the must knows there youhave an exsample of the compound rigging. 4. Use time and set that to the FPS of your project. by defualt it should be 24 in a blender file. BIG WARNING! if you make things perfectly in sync time like this be ready to deal with the "waggon wheel effect" where gears "LOOK" like there going in the wrong direciton. and SO glad your a fan. With a bit of luck more is still to come! Not to mention all the things we are all going to get making

I was wondering if Screw gears can be generated?

This is what i've been waiting for. Just one small question though, how would one create a ratchet gear/escapement?

@Keep-Making

8 ай бұрын

Not quite there yet =/ With a bit of luck in the next update once development funds are up again. At the moment you would need to make the ratcher and paw by hand

Why is the module parameter so wrong??

Considering buying this and use it for games. How's the polycount? I noticed the verts are somewhat high for 1 spur gear, granted I could just optimize the mesh myself.

@2rr0s

9 ай бұрын

Right after I wrote this comment, you went on about the complexity parameter, perfect timing.

I would love a deep dive. I'm trying to model old clock gears and I know teeth count and diameter; however, I'm not sure which diameter since the reference document is from 1880.

I just purchased this add on and I am getting an error message when trying to enable the add on. The error says ValueError: register_class(...): already registered as a subclass 'PrecisionGearsProps'. Any idea how to resolve this?

@michaelhighsmith4907

3 ай бұрын

I encountered the same issue, but it seems to work if you update to Blender 4.1

I purchased it, but the spur gear is missing linear motion rigging. This means you can't design anything where the rack is stationary and have the rotate *and* move with linear motion along the rack. (think rack and pinion CNC or 3D printer) I'm stuck. Any ideas?

@Keep-Making

Жыл бұрын

Good shout! Let's see if we can get that implemented. 😁

@23lkjdfjsdlfj

Жыл бұрын

@@Keep-Making Wonderful! Also, is there a 'Hello World!' python tutorial available (or that you would recommend) to move a precision gear? (it seems hard because it has to rotate correctly as it moves linearly) Perhaps your add-on exposes functions to do this? I'd like to use precision gears to design a robot arm that sits on a rack and have the pinion gear moved programmatically. I'm a software developer kinda newish at Blender with a Blender rank of: overwhelmed newbie/intermediate. Any pointers would be greatly appreciated!

@Keep-Making

Жыл бұрын

Very soon maybe a month and a bit I'm collaborating with an amazing teach to provied makers with a python for blender course 😉

Hey, I really like your content so I purchased the full addon. But, this 0.001 scaling in Scene is breaking my 3D model for printing. This seems like an odd "fix" when it breaks all other properly scaled items. Do you have a suggestion to fix this?

@Keep-Making

10 ай бұрын

Could you explain what you mean by breaks all other models?

SPROCKET N CHAIN please... And belt of course. 😊

Looking at the worm gear options around the 12 minute mark in the context of your comment about "worms don't have fifty teeth".... I don't see anywhere to give a worm multiple starts (parallel threads) which is a pretty common design element. Am I just missing it, or is it not there?

@claws61821

10 ай бұрын

Also, the little mini-rant around minute 27 about "how gears are made" is under-informed. Modulus multiplied by tooth count is the determinator of diameter in metric gearing, yes. HOWEVER, imperial gear sizes actually do begin their dimensioning at the diameter of the gear (I forget if that's specifically the pitch diameter or one of the other diameters). Of course, in both cases that's for "standard" gears; after all, there are certainly common enough use cases for, as an example, 1 modulus 8 tooth metric gears with a nominal diameter of 40 millimeters.

GT2 "gears" are to GT2 toothed belts, what sprockets are to chains (i mean chains like drivechains)

3 minutes in - learned that there are quick favorites 😂

Can this incredible add-on also generate FLAT gears systems?

@rusticagenerica

11 ай бұрын

Just saw you had them ! THANKS MAN

No way . blender rocks

Dude. DONE. $$$ Buying this now. Professional CAD softwares don't even do this well. Solidworks' gear generation is laughable compared to this.

I tried the lite version before deciding to buy. Creating the gear fails a line 30 with: gear_mesh.use_auto_smooth = True AttributeError: ‘Mesh’ object has no attribute ‘use_auto_smooth’ Using Blender 4.1

@squidgert566

3 ай бұрын

Just comment the line and go with “Smooth by angle” modifier. Blender removed the auto smooth due to performance problem.

I just grabbed this and although it says it works in blender 4.0, in 4.1 that doesn't seem like the case (at least, not out of the box...). I'm going to try opening the hood and rem'ing out anything that has to do with 'auto_smooth' attributes, because in 4.1, apparently, they removed that attribute and changed how its implemented in order to have it work within the geometry nodes system... and i have to wonder if the author plans to fix this himself or should leave it to hackers like me to figure it out... I'm just worried that this will really screw something else up down the line. And if they keep changing how object attributes work in order to placate geometry nodes (which i also love) then they should really fix the geometry nodes section in order to handle the existing object attributions correctly instead... a top-down approach instead of bottom up that could wreak havok upon many python scripts that do similar procedures.

@spacepirateivynova

4 ай бұрын

Allright, i think i fixed it... sort of.

Very cool, but not sure how you're supposed to build these to scale.

With time blender is just exploding in every field of visualization.

difdferential riggin entering the tchat :) joking awesome stuff. First step to pure Blender robotics

lol blender. love dem herringbone gearz tho

Outer arrows in the thumbnail, nag.

blender4.1 ？

Опять кривизна не в ту сторону у зубьев шестерни внутреннего зацепления.

@vitof.4626

11 ай бұрын

как насчет английского, может тогда не будет?

@alexlisp7837

11 ай бұрын

@@vitof.4626 при чем тут английский? Профиль у шестерни с внутренним зацеплением тут не правильный. От языка это не зависит.

Charged twice for one download, calling bank on Monday.

You're getting $20 on payday.

hope the Cad add on is still coming to the market... nice extension and update . absolute💪 stable🖖💣💥🗯💭💨❤🕊