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Revision as of 08:08, 9 March 2020
This documentation is a work in progress. Please don't mark it as translatable since it will change in the next hours and days.
The FCGear External Workbench Icon
Introduction
This and the linked website(s) are under construction since 8.3.2020. I try to fill the content quickly in addition to my job. Therefore please have a little patience. @bavariaSHAPE
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.
References
- Author: looooo
- Home page: https://github.com/looooo/FCGear
- Source code on github: https://github.com/looooo/FCGear
Tools
Toolbar
- FCGear InvoluteGear Creates an Involute gear
- FCGear InvoluteRack Creates an Involute rack
- FCGear CycloideGear Creates a Cycloide gear
- FCGear BevelGear Creates a Bevel gear
- FCGear WormGear Creates a Worm gear
- FCGear CrownGear Creates Crown gear
- File:FCGear menu1.png
The FCGear Drop down menu
Installation
Automatic installation
The recommended method of installation as of v0.17 is via the Addon Manager. It can be found in the Tools → Addon Manager
Manual installation
If there is a necessity to manually install this workbench the following instructions are provided to do so:
Linux
git clone https://github.com/looooo/FCGear.git
- link or copy the folder into /freecad/Mod
sudo ln -s (path_to_FCGear) (path_to_freecad)/Mod
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
- 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
User documentation
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