All the parts apart for the dowel pieces cut out and ready to go.
Laser cut acrylic gears.
I need to keep the gears as light as possible without losing much from the accuracy i do have relatively small gears i m using a tooth size of.
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The blue piece is the clear acrylic front.
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The gears in question are cut out of mdf board which is readily usable on all but the feeblest lasercutters you ll find in the average makerspace.
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Wild gears are the end result of a kickstarter campaign that set out to make a newer better spirograph like product.
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Laser cut display gears step 1.
Laser cutting gears that fit your needs usually gears are manufactured by net shaping molding with metal or plastic powders or by traditional machining techniques.
As different laser cutters use different file.
Wild gears is easier to use and has more pieces and options.
Glue together the two.
Each wild gears product is called a gear set and is laser cut from a solid sheet of acrylic.
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I am not familiar with laser rental rates but actual laser time to make each cut of an acrylic rod is no more than a few seconds.
Manually creating a drawing for functional gears is quite complex and time consuming.
Gears with a laser cutter even the complex profiles of involute gears are easy to cut once you have a vector drawing for the gears you want to create.
I m trying to desing a reasonably complicated assembly with gears.
I ve done some prototyping with cutting gears from metal before although the precision was good weight was an issue.
The parts file is divided into two pages.
The first problem faced was when producing gears.
This process for manufacturing the gears provides unsurpassed gear precision and materials quality which leads to gears that work better and designs that are smoother.
Each piece feels good solid crisp.
The difficulty lies with creating the drawing for the gears.
Each gear set is made from one solid sheet of acrylic that is laser cut to produce gears and rings.
Thanks to sculpteo s online services you can design your own custom gears in many materials with both 3d printing and laser cutting.
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The file is a pdf.