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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

Tools

Toolbar

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

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

Other useful links