FCGear Workbench

Introduction
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The FCGear Workbench is an external workbench for FreeCAD to create different types of gears such as: involute gear, involute rack, cycloide gear, bevel gear.

Toolbar

 * FCGear_InvoluteGear.svg FCGear InvoluteGear Creates an Involute gear
 * FCGear_InvoluteRack.svg FCGear InvoluteRack Creates an Involute rack
 * FCGear_CycloideGear.svg FCGear CycloideGear Creates a Cycloide gear
 * FCGear_BevelGear.svg FCGear BevelGear Creates a Bevel gear
 * FCGear_WormGear.svg FCGear WormGear Creates a Worm gear
 * FCGear_CrownGear.svg FCGear CrownGear Creates Crown gear


 * [[Image:FCGear_menu1.png]]

Automatic installation
The recommended method of installation as of v0.17 is via the Addon Manager. It can be found in the

Manual installation
If there is a necessity to manually install this workbench the following instructions are provided to do so:

Linux

 * link or copy the folder into
 * link or copy the folder into

Windows
Tested on (7/8/8.1/10) (From GitHub)


 * download ZIP-archive by clicking on button in top right corner
 * go to FreeCAD-Macro-Folder (inside FreeCAD, choose "Edit > Preferences > General > Macro to see Macro Path)
 * if you haven't changed the standard settings, it should be "C:\Users\Your_Windows_User_Name\AppData\Roaming\FreeCAD"
 * \appdata is a HIDDEN folder, so you may have to change the settings of the file explorer to see it
 * create a sub-folder called "FCGear"
 * make sure to copy files and folders EXACTLY as shown above to the just created sub-folder
 * restart FreeCAD and the workbench should appear in the pull-down menu
 * within FreeCAD you can choose "Tools > Customize > Workbenches" to enable/disable workbenches

MacOSX
See instructions for Linux above

Links to Gear WB

 * Workbench Wiki: https://github.com/looooo/FCGear/wiki
 * FreeCAD Wiki: Macro_FCGear and Bevel gear
 * FreeCAD Forum: http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=12968
 * Tutorials:
 * Videos:
 * Files:
 * Report bugs: Please report bugs at https://github.com/looooo/FCGear/issues

Other useful links

 * [[Image:PartDesign_InvoluteGear.svg|24px|PartDesign_InvoluteGear]] PartDesign InvoluteGear: This tool allows for the creation of a 2D profile of an Involute gear. This 2D profile is fully parametric, and can be padded with the PartDesign Pad feature.
 * External Workbenches: A list of all current external workbenches of FreeCAD
 * Macros recipes