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| FCGear: an Involute Gear Generator for FreeCAD | |
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| This is a simple gear generation tool usable in FreeCAD. The tooth | |
| profiles are approximations of the ideal involutes by Bezier curves, | |
| according the paper: | |
| Approximation of Involute Curves for CAD-System Processing | |
| Higuchi et al. approximation to an involute. | |
| ref: YNU Digital Eng Lab Memorandum 05-1 | |
| http://maekawalab-ynu.com/papers.html | |
| This code is based on the JavaScript implementation of the published | |
| method provided by A.R. Collins in his gearUtils.js tool: | |
| Based on gearUtils-03.js by Dr A.R.Collins | |
| Latest version: <www.arc.id.au/gearDrawing.html> | |
| Also took inspirations from the Inkscape extension provided by Matthew | |
| Dockrey on | |
| https://github.com/attoparsec/inkscape-extensions.git | |
| Copyright 2014 David Douard <david.douard@gmail.com>. | |
| Distributed under the LGPL licence. | |