Gear-Config Icon Challenge

[Egg Bramhill]

As stated earlier:

Raw by eye a line gives the angle of the gears. Clone it and using the vertical centre line as the origin of the line, flip it horizontally. just to ensure true centre group the two angled lines and using the centring circle Align Horizontally. Ungroup & join these two lines into a shape.

To be continue.

Here's the lines:

[Egg Bramhill]

These lines made into a shape:

[Egg Bramhill]

Select that shape & the Centring Circle. Clone. Rotate 45 degrees. Repeat a further six times:

[Egg Bramhill]

Select the eight shapes and Ctrl+1 (Add Shapes):

[Egg Bramhill]

Select the outer circle (NOT the centring circle) Bring to front (Ctrl+F) then shift select the newly created shape. Ctrl+3 (Intersect Shapes):

[Egg Bramhill]

Select the next outer circle (NOT the centring circle) Bring to front (Ctrl+F) then shift select the newly created shape. Ctrl+1 (Add Shapes):

[Egg Bramhill]

Finally select the next inner circle. Bring to front (Ctrl+F) then shift select the newly created shape. Ctrl+2 (Subtract Shapes):

[Rik]

egg: That's similar to my method. Except that I used one shape that goes from top to bottom.
Then cloned it and rotated it 45 degrees.

[Egg Bramhill]

Yes very similar Rick and probably easier to rotate than my method of using a Centring Circle. Still find the additional nodes created by Combine Shapes / Etc annoying.

[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.