Gear-Config Icon Challenge

[gwpriester]

http://gwpriester.xara.hosting/gear-up/

[Rik]

Well now, Gary.
That is very different.
I like it!

[Acorn]

Acorn: I didn't want to do any tracing. To me, that wouldn't be accurate. If I understood what you mean?

Rik, by tracing, I used the original to determine the arcs and using the Ctrl key and other vertical and horizontal adjustments of the line nodes, I have a completely symmetrical cog. There is therefore no guesswork.

Egg's "Raw [sic] by eye" is similarly "not accurate". siran's equally has some judgement required. Gary's is fitting points in a way close to mine; two of the lines have to be best guesses. Yours has its nudge points. Only ernie-f's nails it for accuracy to the original.

siran's is the best for the tip, yours for the profile.

In the end, a hard call but an enjoyable challenge.

Acorn

[gwpriester]

I used the Scale to Fit option (new with 16.2) so it scales down nicely on my iPhone.

[Rik]

I had to draw the icon for work and wondered if there was a better/easier way of drawing it?
As usual, there are different ways.
And it seems that Affinity have the challenge totally nailed!

[gwpriester]

Acorns use of the 8-pointed star suggests another way to do this while maintaining the rounded outer shape. This is not accurate to Rik's shape because I did this from memory.

[Acorn]

Designing real gears was a pain I sadly recall in my engineering drawing classes.

Acorn

[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: