Ah, yes, as I realized to my chagrin this morning, chatting with my lead designer. She pointed this out. Therefore, the only “creative” design will be that of gear one. All the other work will be technical (to be sure) but will not actually create any new shapes. Gearify (and mathematics) will do all of the creation.
Additional creativity (and the possibilities of testing hypotheses) might be possible in seeing which shape original gear (square-ish, triangular, hexagonal, pentagonal, et cetera) will produce the most interesting (or bizarre) combination of daughter gears.
I will update this thread as we proceed.
Gearify gives you the ability to export each gear (known gear or conjugate gear) as a separate .dxf file, so keeping the gears and centers together is a bit easier.
What age students are a part of this?
Maybe each kid could add a word that means something to them. One word that says what it means to be a part of a responsible member of the scientific community or just the community as a whole. That could represent the diversity of the community working together.
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Where is this word to be added? As text on the gear face itself? That could be very cool! My students are under-represented high school aged teens.
That’s what I pictured. I’m not sure what material you’re using, but you could just paint a complimentary color.
I have access to some two-color HDPE, so this would be a great idea. Thanks for the notion!
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That’ll look great. Please share the results.
I suggest create one easily measurable gear go through process of cutting it in Easel then measure to make sure it’s within your tolerance.
For what it’s worth, I don’t really have this issue with .svg files. Would an .svg file type not worth for you situation? The scaled vector graphic files never fail, for me at least not sure about anyone else’s experience with them. They’re hands down my file type of choice when transferring a file I’ve designed in v carve pro to Easel. I’ve never even tried it another way because it works so well for me. All detail is captured to scale and it’s a file type that’s shared by many different CAD programs out there. Hope this helps a bit