Gear-Config Icon Challenge

[theinonen]

Personally I would use ProCAD+ on RISC OS for something like that. (Screenshot from the Windows version but, has some problems with newer versions of Windows.) Works nicely with Artworks.



Very easy and just need to draw circle and single tooth for the gear. Set reference point for the tooth to middle of the circle and use multiple copy, quantity 8 and object centre, click OK and the result will be perfect.

[Acorn]

Personally I would use ProCAD+ on RISC OS for something like that. (Screenshot from the Windows version but, has some problems with newer versions of Windows.) Works nicely with Artworks.



Very easy and just need to draw circle and single tooth for the gear. Set reference point for the tooth to middle of the circle and use multiple copy, quantity 8 and object centre, click OK and the result will be perfect.

Which is what Gary and i did in the Xara Desktop applications. The cog still needs to be shaped somehow.

Acorn

[theinonen]

Only need to draw single tooth and half of the gap to both sides, and the cog shape comes automatically. No need shaping and very easy to do with reference image or with some helper lines.

Without reference image.

[Acorn]

I think the way to remove guesswork is to focus on the tip (top) and the pitch (side) of a cog.

The tip curve is easily constructed from a circle with the same diameter as the gear, 485px.
The pitch, for the above size of the example jpeg, can be two intersecting large circles, 3200px diameter, whose circumferences align with the cog pitch.

Intersecting all shapes of the small circle and the two larger ones results in a stator of the exact required shape that can be cloned, rotated and to form the cogs.
The rest of the construction is relatively simple using two sized circles.



Acorn

[iamtheblues]

A tip-top tip, Acorn!