Thank You for this. I used your method and adapted it to make a 29 tooth gear to replace one in the main brush gearbox of my robot vacuum cleaner. It worked like a charm! If anyone is interested how: rotation angle = 360/29 = 12.414 , I duplicated all the way around and then deleted every second tooth.
this is crazy. we are here to see how to build a gear and he explaind what cases we might need gears... dude, If Im here, it means I already need the gear and I know where I need it. Come on...
I found the video very helpful and learned a lot. It just could have started a little faster with regards to making the gears. Still, the tips I learned are wonderful 👍
Thank you so much? I was having trouble using the "canned" "useful gear" provided by a Tinkercad user. Your method is so quick and easy, I will use it instead of fiddling with the controls for the provided gear. Blessings for being willing to share your knowledge and expertise.
I am an avid TinkerCad-er and never knew about the CTRL-D. I always cut and paste. Thanks for the tip and this great video! It had exactly what I was looking for my project.
Very clever. Gears can be rather complicated, as you said I have done it the hard way, and now I am learning about 3D. I will try your method. Thanks. David, from Maryland.
Interesting. You might explore the spur gear geometry as it has essentially no friction between gear teeth. These are close, but look like there would be rubbing between surfases as the gears mesh. Thanks for the demo.
Excellent lesson! In addition to the Sprocket, I would like to make a Rack to lower and raise the drill bit of a Bench Drill. However, I still need the Crank to operate the Sprocket. Are these 1mm teeth strong enough to withstand the force? Thanks
I’ve been using Tinkercad for only two days. I’d use Inkscape to generate the gear with the integrated tool, export to SVG, import here, done. It would be perfect, too
I’m recycling plastic to make my on surfboard fins and I thought it would be hard to create my own CNC mould designs. Your epic dude and I’m going to do it myself. Thanks
Tinkercad has 2 gear profiles as "primitives" (Basic shapes) one has an involute gear profile with adjustable pressure angle, the other has a circular profile with adjustable 'slop'.
Brilliant! I used this tiurorial to make some GT2 pulleys - its a great technique as it alows complete control over the tooth profile. for 2mm GT2 pulleys diameter(mm)=2*number of teeth/pi...with that simple formula everything else works fine...
Thank you!! I am going to build a more complex crown gear later. But this is exactly the information I was looking for just to get started. Thanks again and also enlightening me with "crtl + D"
Thanks!!! I've got an idea to try and use this to also make a fan gear. I'm making a miniature Fedelcode Model 5 with a working damper, and needed to make gears to operate the siren's damper.
THANK YOU!!! 😊 I am working on a stationary turbine for a dust separator. I have been having a terrible time trying to duplicate the blade and position them. I used a corner pipe to create the blade. Any suggestions welcomed.
Nice tutorial on gears. I would like to increase the size of a half sprocket without changing the size of my teeth. The half sprocket needs to fit over a 80mm tube but at the moment it is a little too small to fit. When I increase it's size to fit the 80mm tube, the teeth size also increase and then sprocket teeth doesn't fit my chain. Can you guide me to how I can do this?
Is this Software appropriate to design little devices.. simple levers, and rockers, springs and gears? I need to make Virtual machines.. for home projects.. i need the most simple easy to use.. virtual workshop.
Hey nice video. I haven’t seen how you would make a project with a thin wall. Let’s say the letter M with a 2.5 mm wall thickness. Any suggestions. Thanks, Bltoth
Cool tips! Just watched a couple of your videos, you just got another subscriber. I'm new to tinkercad and I'm struggling with making a partial hole in an STL file to add a magnet to the project. Playing with meshmixer it's a Boolean expression or something like that. I haven't achieved it in tinkercad. I found team logo's or other designs that I'd like to insert a magnet in them. Getting it centered on the bottom side and not have it come all the way through. Say the button magnet is 3mm and say it's height is 2mm. Do you make the cylinder 3mm round, 4 mm tall to all it to sink below the work plane?
I do have one for turning 2D images into 3D objects in Tinkercad, but nothing specifically Lithophane. What are you wanting to learn with that? Something with light shining through?
+Chaos Core Tech Just maybe some tips and tricks on how to make them instead of guessing. I've made a couple and they are just ok. I've seen others made and they seem so much better. I'm rather new to 3D printing.
Haha, yes; they're called teeth! And a cog is the actual gear. It's great that you curved the faces of the teeth 'cos that helps with the smoothness you testify to. Next, Autodesk should program a whole gear making module that'll do all the manual steps, only asking what space the gears will need to fit into, shaft size, and ratios desired. It could even adjust everything as we drag output shafts to aim in in a different direction. For example, we'd sketch or import a scan of a bicycle, showing mainly the wheels and the axis of the pedal crank. We'd tag them as driver and driven. Tinkercad would do the rest and we could drag pedals forward or backward and the gear system would adjust, with drive chains or belts also in the mix. I think this will accelerate inventiveness by removing the middleman obstacle: difficult drafting. Tinkercad is to machine design what Arduino is to digital controllers!
I appreciate your videos; am still trying to find out how to rotate a 2D image into a 3D model; i.e. if I drew the letter C on a piece of paper and scanned it into TinkerCAD, how might I rotate that 2D curve C into a torus?
Hi Patrick! I think that is a little too advanced for Tinkercad. They don't have any revolve or sketch functionality. I would recommend looking into Fusion 360. It's pretty simple to get the hang of but it's a lot more powerful than Tinkercad and it has several features that could help out with something like that. Hope that helps!
Convert the 2d image into a vector svg file. You can then import the image into another free program like blender. In blender you can have the image extruded along a path, say a circle. This should accomplish what you need.
just done an intro to tinker cad at my local library, and that video was great, I am into mechanical things too. you show male gears, ie: with the teeth on the outside, how do you do female gears?, ie: the crown gear in an automatic transmission (planetary gears).
andy van the word you are looking for is "ring" gear or "internal" Seems to me you would make a cylinder and use a smaller cylinder to punch a hole in the first...then place your teeth on the inside. Thank you for the question, without it I would not have had to come up with an answer.
I have made some insane vortex blades on tinker . But now tinker is no longer working right on windows edge . May have to dump them if they dont fix the problem soon
My crazy idea is to make a gear necklace where you have 3 gears inside a heart shaped necklace. You would use a dog tag chain that would go between the gears.
Very nice video indeed! I learned a lot from it! Can you do a video on how to make Metric bolts and nuts in Tinkercad? I observed that there was a "ISO metric threads" in the Tinkercad Shape Generator section on older versions, but it is gone on the new version I downloaded. Thanks a million!
Hi and thanks for your videos, they have help me alot... Can you help me out with something, i can't seem to find a way to do something... I can not find a way to maniulate or control the length of a shape, so for example if a grab a cube and i want to make the front face one length and the back a different one!?. I hope i make sense.
Thanks for the video on making gears it was very informative. I only been using tinkercad for a couple of weeks and my most difficult issues are making curves like for example french curves or sine wave style shapes. Could you show a video on how to use tinkercad to design an object that has flowing up and down curves and also how to put a rounded brim on a curved surface? Thanks and I appreciate all your efforts!
It's similar to making the gears here, except, instead of putting teeth onto the outside of a cylinder, you put teeth along the length of a long cuboid. Each of the teeth have to be spaced apart by an equal distance which can be calculated. First of all, design one circular gear using this video; this will be the pinion to work with the rack gear. Then, calculate the distance between two neighbouring teeth (called the "pitch") using the following formula: Pitch = π × d ÷ (N - 2.5) Since accuracy here may not be critical, the value of the pitch can be changed slightly, or rounded off to a convenient value. where "π" roughly equals 3.14159, "d" is the diameter of the pinion you first designed, and "N" is the number of teeth on the pinion. Now, how many teeth do you want on your rack gear? (Note that having the same number of teeth on the rack gear and the pinion means turning the pinion once will move the rack gear along its entire length.) The length of the rack gear should be equal to the pitch multiplied by the number of teeth of the rack. However, in practice, the rack gear should be slightly longer than this length to ensure all teeth fit on nicely (increasing the length by the value of pitch should do the trick). Therefore, create a cuboid of length slightly larger than pitch × rack No. teeth. Now add the first tooth in a similar fashion to adding the first tooth of the circular gear. Then, place the other teeth spaced with an equal distance equal to the pitch (note that this is the distance between the centres of two neighbouring teeth), until you have added all the teeth you needed. Viola, you should hopefully have created a rack gear. Note: creating accurate rack gears is more complex and also involves a little bit of research, but one note is that, in industry, rack gears have teeth that are shaped as a trapezium. EXAMPLE: Let's say we use the smaller gear in the video as the pinion, it having a diameter of 12mm and 18 teeth, and we want a rack with 54 teeth: Therefore the pitch equals π × 12 ÷ (18 - 2.5) = 2.43mm Pitch × Rack No. Teeth equals 2.43 × 54 = 131.22mm. Therefore, let's make the length of the cuboid slightly longer at 135mm. Add teeth with spacing of 2.43mm.
Hay, love the gears, Just wondering if there is a more accurate way of aligning the teeth without centering it in the grid? if you know of another can you show us?
+Calvin Chee Yes actually, since I made this I learned to use the align tool up in the top right area next to mirror. You can click that and select 2 objects. Then you can click what line you want to align them to. It'll allow you to center the pegs directly with the cylinder.
hi there chaos, thanks for getting me started on the gears! i think you need to specify that the gear ratio is based on the pitch diameter, not the diameter of the circle you created? this means you add a full tooth length to the diameter.
Wow, this was a million times easier than I expected. Thank you for the straight to the point tutorial 🙏
how to select both of them
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Thank You for this. I used your method and adapted it to make a 29 tooth gear to replace one in the main brush gearbox of my robot vacuum cleaner. It worked like a charm! If anyone is interested how: rotation angle = 360/29 = 12.414 , I duplicated all the way around and then deleted every second tooth.
starts at 2:45
this is crazy. we are here to see how to build a gear and he explaind what cases we might need gears... dude, If Im here, it means I already need the gear and I know where I need it. Come on...
FourtyParsecs ty
I found the video very helpful and learned a lot. It just could have started a little faster with regards to making the gears. Still, the tips I learned are wonderful 👍
not all heroes wear capes
Thanks bro!
I have just recently discovered Tinkercad. This particular video has opened up a whole new world to me. THANK YOU !
Wooaoaaaahhhhh! That whole "tinkered will duplicate the object(s) and keep applying the effect" thing seriously just blew my mind
Thank you so much? I was having trouble using the "canned" "useful gear" provided by a Tinkercad user. Your method is so quick and easy, I will use it instead of fiddling with the controls for the provided gear. Blessings for being willing to share your knowledge and expertise.
I followed the steps and 3D printed them and they somehow worked amazingly!
Wow, this was a lot easier than I was thinking it would be! Thanks! Liked the video.
Thanks for the tutorial, straight to the point and easy to follow. Planning to use the technique to make an orrery and this video is really helpful.
I am an avid TinkerCad-er and never knew about the CTRL-D. I always cut and paste. Thanks for the tip and this great video! It had exactly what I was looking for my project.
Thank you! I’m just getting started with TinkerCad so your videos certainly help!
I love your channel! You are actually one of the main people who inspired me to experiment in 3d printing!
Thank you! And that means a lot to me. I'm glad I could help. :)
Very clever. Gears can be rather complicated, as you said I have done it the hard way, and now I am learning about 3D. I will try your method. Thanks. David, from Maryland.
Interesting. You might explore the spur gear geometry as it has essentially no friction between gear teeth. These are close, but look like there would be rubbing between surfases as the gears mesh. Thanks for the demo.
Excellent lesson! In addition to the Sprocket, I would like to make a Rack to lower and raise the drill bit of a Bench Drill. However, I still need the Crank to operate the Sprocket. Are these 1mm teeth strong enough to withstand the force? Thanks
I’ve been using Tinkercad for only two days. I’d use Inkscape to generate the gear with the integrated tool, export to SVG, import here, done. It would be perfect, too
Thanks for the video man, your videos have definitely helped me out 👍
Your technique of explanation for 3D design is the best I have seen ! Live classes would be amazing. Thanks for your help .
Much appreciated dude, this was a huge help
Wow, how simple. Thanks for this cool hint, mate!
I’m recycling plastic to make my on surfboard fins and I thought it would be hard to create my own CNC mould designs. Your epic dude and I’m going to do it myself. Thanks
It is interesting to see a slightly different method to create those gears then I chose:)
I suggest that you cut the first several minutes and get to the project. That was outstanding. But don't want to wait so long to get there.
Tinkercad has 2 gear profiles as "primitives" (Basic shapes) one has an involute gear profile with adjustable pressure angle, the other has a circular profile with adjustable 'slop'.
Thanks for that comment. I'd never thought to look.
thats a mint skill just wat i needed to learn 4 a new project
Brilliant! I used this tiurorial to make some GT2 pulleys - its a great technique as it alows complete control over the tooth profile. for 2mm GT2 pulleys diameter(mm)=2*number of teeth/pi...with that simple formula everything else works fine...
Ty for your video learned alot✌✌👋👋👋
nice. what about helical gears?
Thank you!!
I am going to build a more complex crown gear later. But this is exactly the information I was looking for just to get started.
Thanks again and also enlightening me with "crtl + D"
This is what I need! Thanks for the video!
How did you select both of them.
Thanks!!! I've got an idea to try and use this to also make a fan gear. I'm making a miniature Fedelcode Model 5 with a working damper, and needed to make gears to operate the siren's damper.
You are a legend 👍
how did u get .5 in the first spike of the gear
THANK YOU!!! 😊
I am working on a stationary turbine for a dust separator. I have been having a terrible time trying to duplicate the blade and position them. I used a corner pipe to create the blade. Any suggestions welcomed.
man.. you help me in magic way thx alot
+haitham abaas No problem! Glad I can help. :)
at 7:09 how do you slide your view over to the right?
this is 5 yrs ago so its definitely gonna be different
Thank you sir. I benefit a lot from this video
after you model the gears can you animate them like in solidworks?
Thanks im a beginner in the 3d printing world and your videos been so useful great job
nice tutorial, it's easy to make gears with your tutorial. thanks bro :)
how will deal if gear is custom sized or teeth are odd numbers also how we will understand how much dia for custom sized gear?
I just got a 3d printer and got started with tinkercad
This video saved me loads of time!
Thank you!
How about worm gears next?
video starts at 2:40
Thanks good stuff, I love the duplicate feature
Can you do a tutorial on making beveled gears?
How do you make a hole in the center of the gear in Tinkercad?
Nice tutorial on gears. I would like to increase the size of a half sprocket without changing the size of my teeth. The half sprocket needs to fit over a 80mm tube but at the moment it is a little too small to fit. When I increase it's size to fit the 80mm tube, the teeth size also increase and then sprocket teeth doesn't fit my chain. Can you guide me to how I can do this?
yep, Thinkercad tutorial about how to put stuff on rounded objects (like you do when designing R2D2 body) it`s a great idea. waiting for it )
+Макс Good deal, video will be going up tomorrow!
Is this Software appropriate to design little devices.. simple levers, and rockers, springs and gears? I need to make Virtual machines.. for home projects.. i need the most simple easy to use.. virtual workshop.
Hey nice video. I haven’t seen how you would make a project with a thin wall. Let’s say the letter M with a 2.5 mm wall thickness. Any suggestions. Thanks, Bltoth
Cool tips! Just watched a couple of your videos, you just got another subscriber.
I'm new to tinkercad and I'm struggling with making a partial hole in an STL file to add a magnet to the project.
Playing with meshmixer it's a Boolean expression or something like that.
I haven't achieved it in tinkercad. I found team logo's or other designs that I'd like to insert a magnet in them.
Getting it centered on the bottom side and not have it come all the way through.
Say the button magnet is 3mm and say it's height is 2mm.
Do you make the cylinder 3mm round, 4 mm tall to all it to sink below the work plane?
try this th-cam.com/video/60xfIu-lqAs/w-d-xo.html
Do I need to register and download the program
what! is it even possible to love tinkercad more. awesome. do it again
+Erick Reconco Lol I agree! :)
This was awesome. Just what I needed to help my students. Really nicely made.
Thank you for sharing your experience and expertise with Tinker. Keep up the great work.
Thanks for the tutorial. Im new to 3d printing.
or go to Shape Generator, ALL and Choose progear object. You are welcome!
Doesn’t work when Resizing basically when you resize the gear the teeth don’t multiply and stay the same size they just get bigger
They've got metric gears in TC now, but you still learn a lot about manipulating objects in this vid.
I was wondering if you had a Tinkercad Lithophane how to? And if not, could you do one please? That would be awesome!
I do have one for turning 2D images into 3D objects in Tinkercad, but nothing specifically Lithophane. What are you wanting to learn with that? Something with light shining through?
+Chaos Core Tech Just maybe some tips and tricks on how to make them instead of guessing. I've made a couple and they are just ok. I've seen others made and they seem so much better. I'm rather new to 3D printing.
Thanks a lot - very nice tutorial!
Haha, yes; they're called teeth! And a cog is the actual gear. It's great that you curved the faces of the teeth 'cos that helps with the smoothness you testify to. Next, Autodesk should program a whole gear making module that'll do all the manual steps, only asking what space the gears will need to fit into, shaft size, and ratios desired. It could even adjust everything as we drag output shafts to aim in in a different direction. For example, we'd sketch or import a scan of a bicycle, showing mainly the wheels and the axis of the pedal crank. We'd tag them as driver and driven. Tinkercad would do the rest and we could drag pedals forward or backward and the gear system would adjust, with drive chains or belts also in the mix. I think this will accelerate inventiveness by removing the middleman obstacle: difficult drafting. Tinkercad is to machine design what Arduino is to digital controllers!
so how did you select both teeth at once after you duplicated the one original tooth?
Use Ctrl
How do I select 2 or more items at same time? Holding Ctrl it does not work.
Vides Starts at 2:46 your welcome!
I appreciate your videos; am still trying to find out how to rotate a 2D image into a 3D model; i.e. if I drew the letter C on a piece of paper and scanned it into TinkerCAD, how might I rotate that 2D curve C into a torus?
Hi Patrick! I think that is a little too advanced for Tinkercad. They don't have any revolve or sketch functionality. I would recommend looking into Fusion 360. It's pretty simple to get the hang of but it's a lot more powerful than Tinkercad and it has several features that could help out with something like that. Hope that helps!
Convert the 2d image into a vector svg file. You can then import the image into another free program like blender. In blender you can have the image extruded along a path, say a circle. This should accomplish what you need.
Really interesting method. It even makes the teeth kind of beveled.
Super, thanks for sharing.😊 I need to make a bulldozer track.
I'm trying to make a propeller wing but it won't line up the last blade is off in angle.
just done an intro to tinker cad at my local library, and that video was great, I am into mechanical things too. you show male gears, ie: with the teeth on the outside, how do you do female gears?, ie: the crown gear in an automatic transmission (planetary gears).
andy van the word you are looking for is "ring" gear or "internal"
Seems to me you would make a cylinder and use a smaller cylinder to punch a hole in the first...then place your teeth on the inside.
Thank you for the question, without it I would not have had to come up with an answer.
thanks for your video, i would like know how i can selec two objects, how can you select both of them? thanks
Just click the first object and then press Shift key and click the other object
YES . OR YOU CAN JUST CLICK ANYWHERE ON THE SCREEN AND DRAG ON THE 2 OBJECTS
I have made some insane vortex blades on tinker . But now tinker is no longer working right on windows edge . May have to dump them if they dont fix the problem soon
How could I down load Tinker Cad to practice ? Please, show the webste to down load - Thank you
I'm trying to do this but it's not letting me click on both to duplicate them
Would like a video on rc hydraulics pumps and gears etc??
You're an excellent teacher. Thanks for this - I picked up some excellent tips esp the Ctrl d feature for multiple duplication.
My crazy idea is to make a gear necklace where you have 3 gears inside a heart shaped necklace. You would use a dog tag chain that would go between the gears.
I would be real interested in making 1 round gear and a flat bar with gear teeth on one side.
Pozdrwienia z lekcji
Very helpful video, thank you. Was looking for a way to create a textured surface on a thumb screw and with a slight modification this worked a treat.
Why don't you copy and revise community menu and some standard template such as progear ?
Good Video. Could you do one on a clock face?
really cool. this works also really good with encoder wheel design!!
Thank you! you have been super clear!
and how can the rack be made for this gear, I subscribed !!!
Very nice video indeed! I learned a lot from it! Can you do a video on how to make Metric bolts and nuts in Tinkercad? I observed that there was a "ISO metric threads" in the Tinkercad Shape Generator section on older versions, but it is gone on the new version I downloaded. Thanks a million!
Thankyou from a newbie
Hi and thanks for your videos, they have help me alot...
Can you help me out with something, i can't seem to find a way to do something...
I can not find a way to maniulate or control the length of a shape, so for example if a grab a cube and i want to make the front face one length and the back a different one!?.
I hope i make sense.
Cool vid, although I'm struggling selecting 2 different objects at once😕
How to make Gears Animation ? Thanx.
Thank you for that!
Thanks for the video on making gears it was very informative. I only been using tinkercad for a couple of weeks and my most difficult issues are making curves like for example french curves or sine wave style shapes. Could you show a video on how to use tinkercad to design an object that has flowing up and down curves and also how to put a rounded brim on a curved surface? Thanks and I appreciate all your efforts!
Very useful , thanks.
But how can I make rack gears?
It's similar to making the gears here, except, instead of putting teeth onto the outside of a cylinder, you put teeth along the length of a long cuboid. Each of the teeth have to be spaced apart by an equal distance which can be calculated.
First of all, design one circular gear using this video; this will be the pinion to work with the rack gear. Then, calculate the distance between two neighbouring teeth (called the "pitch") using the following formula:
Pitch = π × d ÷ (N - 2.5)
Since accuracy here may not be critical, the value of the pitch can be changed slightly, or rounded off to a convenient value.
where "π" roughly equals 3.14159, "d" is the diameter of the pinion you first designed, and "N" is the number of teeth on the pinion.
Now, how many teeth do you want on your rack gear? (Note that having the same number of teeth on the rack gear and the pinion means turning the pinion once will move the rack gear along its entire length.) The length of the rack gear should be equal to the pitch multiplied by the number of teeth of the rack. However, in practice, the rack gear should be slightly longer than this length to ensure all teeth fit on nicely (increasing the length by the value of pitch should do the trick).
Therefore, create a cuboid of length slightly larger than pitch × rack No. teeth. Now add the first tooth in a similar fashion to adding the first tooth of the circular gear. Then, place the other teeth spaced with an equal distance equal to the pitch (note that this is the distance between the centres of two neighbouring teeth), until you have added all the teeth you needed. Viola, you should hopefully have created a rack gear.
Note: creating accurate rack gears is more complex and also involves a little bit of research, but one note is that, in industry, rack gears have teeth that are shaped as a trapezium.
EXAMPLE:
Let's say we use the smaller gear in the video as the pinion, it having a diameter of 12mm and 18 teeth, and we want a rack with 54 teeth:
Therefore the pitch equals π × 12 ÷ (18 - 2.5) = 2.43mm
Pitch × Rack No. Teeth equals 2.43 × 54 = 131.22mm. Therefore, let's make the length of the cuboid slightly longer at 135mm.
Add teeth with spacing of 2.43mm.
Great video, it helped me loads with my gear design :)
Hay, love the gears, Just wondering if there is a more accurate way of aligning the teeth without centering it in the grid? if you know of another can you show us?
+Calvin Chee Yes actually, since I made this I learned to use the align tool up in the top right area next to mirror. You can click that and select 2 objects. Then you can click what line you want to align them to. It'll allow you to center the pegs directly with the cylinder.
This is so user friendly! Thanks!
hi there chaos, thanks for getting me started on the gears! i think you need to specify that the gear ratio is based on the pitch diameter, not the diameter of the circle you created? this means you add a full tooth length to the diameter.
Can u make gear like this (tkr 5237) that is model number
Cool piece