The first problem faced was when producing gears.
Laser cut acrylic gears.
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.
I m trying to desing a reasonably complicated assembly with gears.
The parts file is divided into two pages.
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.
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.
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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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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Glue together the two.
The blue piece is the clear acrylic front.
Each wild gears product is called a gear set and is laser cut from a solid sheet of acrylic.
Each piece feels good solid crisp.
I ve done some prototyping with cutting gears from metal before although the precision was good weight was an issue.
All the parts apart for the dowel pieces cut out and ready to go.
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.
Each gear set is made from one solid sheet of acrylic that is laser cut to produce gears and rings.
As different laser cutters use different file.
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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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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.
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The gear sets are used to make art by putting a gear in a ring and moving it around or by making a stationary gear and moving another gear around it.
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The difficulty lies with creating the drawing for the gears.
I am fortunate to be able to use rods up to 8 long but if the laser you use handles smaller sizes you can cut them to a length that fits with whatever saw you have available without worrying about how accurate that cut is.
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