Gears

[bourbonut]

Hi jimy-byerley,

I worked on gear.py in the branch gears. The goal was to create an entire gear thanks to one function gear(...). I used gearprofile to generate a tooth profile for the gear and I added some functions:

• gearexterior it generates the external profile part of the gear
• gearstructure with some functions full_pattern / circle_pattern / rect_pattern / rounded_pattern, it allows the user to generate a structure as he wants
• gearhub: it generates the internal part of the gear; the user can choose to have a hub if he wants
• geargather: with all parts generated by previous functions, it gathers all of them and return the entire gear

I would like to give you some details for circle_pattern & rect_pattern / rounded_pattern. Here is how I configured circle_pattern.

Here is how I configured rect_pattern / rounded_pattern. Just note that I used the function bevel in rounded_pattern to transform straight angles in rounded angles but parameters stay the same.

If you have any questions, don't hesitate ! I hope that you will understand all and you will like my request.

Best regards. bourbonut

[jimy-byerley]

Hello bourbonut ! Finally that long and hard work is closed to the end ! I was quite impatient at looking into the final work. I will take a deep look into it in the next days ! (And for whaterver reason, github is showing even more modified lines that what it is in reality ... Surely some dark story of spaces laying at the end of some lines of one of the files ;) )

[jimy-byerley]

For some reasons it doesn't appear here is it should (I should have make some mistake in my commands). But I made fex slight changes, that I merged on the gears branch !

• to make your modifications compatible with the sphinx expected format
• to improve few variable names

I think I will continue on the following

• review some variables and implementation of some functions (I didn't finished my part in reading all this ;) )
• we should put some screenshots and schemes in the docs !