[bananafish]

I'm searching for the programs to design gears for wooden clocks.

So far I found
1,Gear template generator
Gear template generator program
and
2,Gearotic motion
Gearotic Motion

Does anybody know other programs worth having look at?

Thanks,
Taka

[kiwichris]

I've used the one from woodgears.ca to cut some complex acrylic gear sets for proof of concept work for a friend and found it to be just what I needed, although maybe a bit limited functionality wise the gear forms it produces mesh well at the sizes I was working with.

[CarveOne]

Here's a free one at Emachineshop.com

CarveOne

[CNCleader1]

:cheers:

[k_yarina]

Inkscape has a gear generator, and the gcodetools extension can generate gcode from drawings.

I'm a Gearotic Motion owner/user, and strongly recommend it. The beta version can generate graham escapements, and grasshoppers are under development.

Kirk

[dgoodyear]

I use gearotic for generating gears on all my clocks. I haven't used the graham escapement option though it appears to work fine. Spoking options are pretty good although I usually design my own. If you want to see gears designed with gearotic, you can visit my site at Wooden Gear Clocks | Clock Plans | CNC Clocks by OnTime. I offer plans, dxf files, and there will soon be a kit for my nautica clock. Gearotic rules!

David

[bananafish]

Thanks Guys for the information.

I downloaded Gearotic motion free trial.
It seems to be pretty good and $75 is good price too.

I also downloaded the one from Emachineshop but I could not install it.

Found another one DelphUSA Gear Wheel Designer
This one does not offer trial version and price is US$338.13

[dgoodyear]

After you pay for gearotic, you get any upgrades that become available. Art and Bob appear to be fairly active with this software. New updates are always available.

David

[kiwichris]

Following up my comment on woodgears.ca..

Just had a really good look at gearotic. Me thinks I'll be buying that when I next do something requiring gears that I can charge out.

It's a much richer app, and the 3D animation thing looks cool.

Cheers, Chris H.

[Oscar1]

So this is what people to use to design the mechanism! I was wondering about that.