================================================ FCGear: an Involute Gear Generator for FreeCAD ================================================ 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: Also took inspirations from the Inkscape extension provided by Matthew Dockrey on https://github.com/attoparsec/inkscape-extensions.git Copyright 2014 David Douard . Distributed under the LGPL licence.