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    • TIGT Offline
      TIG Moderator
      last edited by

      New member PhilLeGall has done some work re-coding this toolset.
      I've suggested to him that he first posts outline details here, with a view to perhaps publishing an updated version in due course...

      Hopefully he'll post here soon...

      He would like to contact the original author - but his out-bound PM abilities are initially curtailed.
      Perhaps jgrundman could PM him, when he sees this ?

      TIG

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      • P Offline
        PhilLeGall
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        Good morning to all of you.
        I'm trying to contact Mark Jason Grundman. I would like to present him with a version 2 of SPGear quite complete.
        The new version offers the following services:
        Bilingual (English, French), easily expandable for other languages.
        Automatically adapts to the SketchUp type (mm or inch)
        Draws, in addition to straight gears, helical, conical, helical conicals, chevron gears, hollow wheel gears and globic screws.
        The new version performs calculations to correct deformations in the case of very steep propellers (screw cases)
        The new version also proposes to draw the adapted satellite gears (calculated automatically) and then place them correctly on the leading gable.
        The app filters the compatible settings for each requested case as much as possible.
        The new version uses and generalizes mesh drawings (systematic use of add_faces_from_mesh methods)
        The new version includes well on the setting of the boring, the size of the flap, the design or not of a rimmed/rim and the direction of rotation of the helical

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        • C Offline
          Cyberdactyl
          last edited by

          Any news on an update regarding this project? The last post was almost a year ago.

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          • Dan RathbunD Offline
            Dan Rathbun
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            UPDATED - NO NEW FEATURES

            Other authors were creating derivative extensions without differencing in a namespace wrapper of their own. This can cause clashing Ruby objects, ie classes. So ...

            The following version preserves MJ Grundman's edition within a namespace module of MJG's own. Some general cleanup, a fix for the inputbox and some error handling for the command. Also made sure that no undo operation is left open as that emits warnings now (if an exception occurs before the operation can be committed.)

            Packed up as a RBZ extension archive.

            Again, ... NO NEW FEATURES, but you can now switch it on and off via SketchUp's Extension Manager or the SketchUcation PluginStore interface.

            NOTE: Remember to delete (or move) the old "SPGears_mjg_v1.2.rb" file from your "Plugins" folder when running the update version.

            ` # v1.3 : 2021-10-26 by Dan Rathbun

            - Properly namespace wrapped and packaged as a RBZ extension archive.

            - General cleanup of indents, extra long lines and empty space lines.

            - Corrected inputbox validation loop in SPGear::dialog().

            * Was calling the same method recursively and not restoring the

            users previous inputs.

            * Was using bad index to validate Bevel Angle results which did

            not cause the inputbox to redisplay allowing error in later code

            when the angle was out of range.`

            .


            MJGrundman_SPGears_v1.3.rbz

            I'm not here much anymore.

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            • TIGT Offline
              TIG Moderator
              last edited by

              I've updated the version in the PluginStore to this one... v1.3
              https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SPGears_mjg

              TIG

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              • TIGT Offline
                TIG Moderator
                last edited by

                Here's v1.4 RBZ, which fixes a tiny typo in a file-path setting up the extension...
                https://sketchucation.com/pluginstore?pln=SPGears_mjg

                TIG

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                • kenK Offline
                  ken
                  last edited by

                  Thanks, TIG

                  I have been chasing why I couldn't install this plugin. It kept appearing in the SketchUcation Extension Manager as Disabled Extensions and I couldn't change the setting.

                  And maybe I missed the text, but it would help, if there was some indication where plugin/extensions are located.

                  Again, thank you

                  Ken

                  Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                  • TIGT Offline
                    TIG Moderator
                    last edited by

                    If you use the built-in Extension Manager you should be able to enable an extension, however an old extension like this is not 'signed' - so you will need the Extension Manager's settings 'Loading Policy' to be 'Unrestricted'...

                    Most plugins have 'usage notes' explaining where to find and use the tools...

                    In the case of this particular one it's spelled out in the first post of this thread...
                    Menu Item : Plugins -> SPGears - in newer versions of SketchUp that menu was re-titled 'Extensions'...

                    TIG

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                    • kenK Offline
                      ken
                      last edited by

                      Tig

                      I used the extension manager and I had it to load unsigned plugins.

                      Still, it would end up in the disabled section and I couldn't move it from there. Tried many times and many ways.

                      However, I got it running now.

                      Fight like your the third monkey on Noah's Ark gangway.

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                        antwal
                        last edited by

                        hi all,

                        this plugin working with sketchup 2021? i have installed it but when try generate gear with default settings i receive the message "Diametral = 1.5" and not working, how can resolve this problem?

                        Thanks.

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                        • Dave RD Offline
                          Dave R
                          last edited by

                          SPGears works fine in SketchUp 2021 for me.

                          @antwal said:

                          i receive the message "Diametral = 1.5" and not working, how can resolve this problem?

                          What do you do after you get that message? It's not an error. It's just information.
                          Click on the picture

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                            GregorS
                            last edited by

                            It is now 2022 perhaps things have changed som even though I am using SU2017 Make.
                            I used to draw involute gears by hand, tracing a profile from "geargenerator.com" at a large scale and using arcs with suitable radii for the various sections, pushing into appropriate thickness and 3D printing in PLA made eminently usable gears.
                            One 'bug' that I have seen with SPGears 1.4 on Windows is a klipping plane phenomenon that is baffling. Only at a limited zoom factor is the generated gear visible and neither Zoom All nor Zoom Selected manage to make the gear appear. Perspective or Parallel projection makes no difference.

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                            • Dave RD Offline
                              Dave R
                              last edited by

                              I'm not seeing that when using this extensions. Share a .skp file so we can see what you are getting.

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                                dennipeter
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                                @antwal said:

                                hi all,

                                this plugin working with sketchup 2021? i have installed it but when try generate gear with default settings i receive the message "Diametral = 1.5" and not working, how can resolve this problem?

                                Thanks.

                                I too get the same "Dimetral" pop up box, and no gear seems to get created after that.

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                                  Radim
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                                  Hello,
                                  how can I define the height of the tooth?

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                                  • Dave RD Offline
                                    Dave R
                                    last edited by

                                    @radim said:

                                    how can I define the height of the tooth?

                                    This extension models involute gear teeth. Their height is determined by the extension. Since the teeth are created as components separate from the body of the gear, you could edit the tooth component to change its height.
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                                      Doiiu
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                                      Hello!
                                      Could you please check this:
                                      I need to 3D print so need mm instead of inches
                                      Pitch is in mm, but Face is in inches; typing mm is not working because of floating value
                                      I read that I can change this in .rb file,
                                      And find out that SPGears do not exist neither in Manager or in Plugin folder..

                                      Any options I can try?
                                      Thank you!

                                      Screenshot 2023-05-09 173242.jpg

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                                      • Dave RD Offline
                                        Dave R
                                        last edited by

                                        @doiiu said:

                                        Pitch is in mm, but Face is in inches

                                        While you wait for this to be fixed you might have a look for other plugins to make gears. I have an ancient one (that still works fine in SU2023) called DH Involute Gear. It only creates a 2D gear shape but you can then use Push/Pull to extrude it to the desired height. It has the benefit of creating the entire gear shape as a single face instead of greating the teeth as separate objects.
                                        click on the picture

                                        @doiiu said:

                                        And find out that SPGears do not exist neither in Manager or in Plugin folder..

                                        Any options I can try?

                                        If you want to edit this plugin yourself look for MJGrundman_SPGears. Both the .rb and the folder have that name.

                                        @doiiu said:

                                        I need to 3D print so need mm instead of inches

                                        FWIW, I generally find it better to model for 3D printing using meters for the units. Enter millimeters as if they are meters. Export the .stl with units set to meters and import into the slicer in millimeters.

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                                          Doiiu
                                          last edited by

                                          Thank you very much!
                                          quick search didn't show me DH Involute Gear,
                                          however I just take faces and push them to desired thickness
                                          It was obvious and I don't know why I didn't do this from the very beginning
                                          Sorry I was stupid

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                                          • Dave RD Offline
                                            Dave R
                                            last edited by

                                            It might be that the old DH Involute Gear is no longer available. I've had it so long I don't recall where I got it from.

                                            Although the fix is easy enough, I wouldn't say you're being stupid. It's reasonable that all those dimensions should be in the same units.

                                            Another thing you might want to consider if you are printing standard types of gears is that you can find CAD files for gears that you could import into SketchUp.

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