When creating objects, sometimes, you need to create interlocking mechanisms. With a plugin, it becomes very easy to create gears for just that. Read on to learn how.
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- 1Make sure you have the Involute Gear plugin. It can be found here. Download it and save it to your SketchUp plugins folder.
- 2If SketchUp is running, close it and start it back up, so that it will 'see' the new plugin. Click on Draw >> Involute Gear.
- 3Leave it at the default to start with. Until you know what does what, leave the settings at default.
Leave it at the default to start with. - 4Double click on it. When it is created, it is created as a group. To edit it, as in using the Push/pull, you need to double click on it to edit it.
- 5Know what your ratio will be. Your small gear (the pinion gear) relative to the large gear, (the gear wheel). If your ration is 2:1, then the gear wheel will have two times the gears than the pinion gear. It will also need to be twice as large.
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