Bevel Gear Creation

Question

I need to create a set of bevel gears for a Shay locomotive in a Sketchup project I am working on, and I was wondering if there is a Blender tutorial for this? Thanks in advance for any help you may give.

enable extra objects addon , then you can add gears through Alt+A — Chebhou, May 22 '15 at 17:21
related: http://blender.stackexchange.com/questions/8033/simulating-a-screw-turning-a-gear and http://blender.stackexchange.com/a/9230/1853 — , May 22 '15 at 19:44

score 7 · Answer 1 · answered May 22 '15 at 19:33

The plugin you need is called now add_mesh_extra_objects. To enable it press CtrlAltU. That will open the preferences window. On the Addons tab type extra and and check the box for Add Mesh:Extra Objects

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You should have new options on the add mesh menu. Select Add_Mesh_Gears_gear.

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On the tool bar (T) You have a lot of options to create the gear you need.

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Bevel Gear Creation

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