[Plugin] Hypocycloid Cam Profile Generator v1.0.0
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Time to google what hypocycloid means...sounds good!
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Please post image on the first post of a plugin!
Does it this
or this ?
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Ah that is something like this!
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When I was a kid I remember having that toy!
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@unknownuser said:
Please post image on the first post of a plugin!
I will ... and there are reference links in the file headers.
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I don't see thickness like your image result on the first post
I miss something ? (just tested in v7)
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@dan rathbun said:
[Plugin] Hypocycloid Cam Profile Generator v1.0.0
Generate 2D profiles of hypocycloid cams for cycloid drives.
I push-pulled the face up manually.
This plugin is for creating profiles for CNC routing machines that will cut the cam.
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@dan rathbun said:
@dan rathbun said:
[Plugin] Hypocycloid Cam Profile Generator v1.0.0
Generate 2D profiles of hypocycloid cams for cycloid drives.
I push-pulled the face up manually.
This plugin is for creating profiles for CNC routing machines that will cut the cam.
OK driven and I are planning to 3D-ize this plugin.
The old CNC dxf way is out of style. John wants to use SketchUp to have cams 3D Printed.So we'll be making new 3D features. (But we'll leave the 2D layers with the 2D profiles.)
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added to store
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epitrochoid
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypocycloidlooks more like the former than the latter...
and then there's:
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@gullfo said:
looks more like the former than the latter...
SEE wikipedia: Cycloidal Drive
This has nothing to do with curves made with the Spirograph toy !
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