# Gear Generation Tool **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature requests\ **Created:** [January 14, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044 "2025-01-14T17:43:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GroMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@GroMark](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/GroMark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044/1 "2025-01-14T17:43:04Z")
**Creating gears is pretty painful in Shapr3d right now, and this would be a simple option for solving that** \*I think the Tool should work like this: One could create a tooth of the gear and then click on “Gear” tool. It would work similarly to the revolve tool, but would automatically create the needed amount of tooth based on the sizes of the give tooth and the diameter of the Gear, which one could define by dragging the origin of the tool (Similar to when one can change the diameter of an Arc by pulling the point in he middle)\* **An easy tool for creating gears** _It is actually hard to create gears, and very tidious. It still can be done, but is very annoying (At least to me)_ ---
**Author:** ![BKE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/bke/32/31690_2.png) [@BKE](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/BKE)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 8:26pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044/2 "2025-01-14T20:26:58Z")
In the meantime > **[Spur Gear Calculator Hub | Evolvent Design](https://evolventdesign.com/pages/calculators)** > > Tools to help you get started with gears – .STL and .DXF gear generators, detailed gear geometry, measurement over pin and span inspection tools, and more > **[Involute spur gear generator and simulator](https://geargenerator.com/)** > > Gear Generator is a tool for creating involute spur gears and download them in SVG format. In addition it let you compose full gear layouts with connetcted gears to design multiple gears system with control of the input/output ratio and rotation... > **[‎Gear Design](https://apps.apple.com/se/app/gear-design/id1136191442?l=en-GB)** > > ‎Gear Design is great in designing involute gears from scratch. > > Application includes a CAD interface in front end where users can assess designed gears visually with their finger gestures (zoom, rotate, twist etc.). > > Users can easily generate STL... untested > **[‎Kythera](https://apps.apple.com/se/app/kythera/id1399295177?l=en-GB&mt=12)** > > ‎Kythera is a simple spur gear editor for the Macintosh. > > With Kythera you can quickly design complex gear trains, and visualize their motion on the screen. You can also quickly export your gears in DXF format, STL, or as PDF templates, and Kythera... ---
**Author:** ![GroMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@GroMark](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/GroMark)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 9:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044/3 "2025-01-14T21:09:35Z")
I know that there are these options, and also, that many people already suggested this, but still it would be great ---
**Author:** ![BKE](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/bke/32/31690_2.png) [@BKE](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/BKE)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044/4 "2025-01-14T23:05:44Z")
Indeed, but imho this is (light) years off… ---
**Author:** ![Ampto](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/ampto/32/25874_2.png) [@Ampto](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Ampto)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 4:01am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044/5 "2025-01-15T04:01:47Z")
If you know the math behind involutes, you can create template parts reasonably easily that you can reuse or import into new parts. There is some much complexity in gear design, an internal tool would either be overly complicated, or severally limiting (worked as a gear designer for several years). Probably best to leave it up to standalone software that specialise in gears, or create rough “looks pretty” basic geometry parts and leave all the computations on the drawing for manufacturing etc. Don’t get me wrong, would be an awesome feature, but gears as simple as they look, there is a lot to them, if you are designing custom gears, rarely are you using standard by the book calculations, so the tool needs to be able to compute form modification factors, profile crowning, root modifications. The list goes on. I have a spreadsheet for designing gears that would give people nightmares! ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/8/2/8288e1d19de75de1a94c5cb0365cad5b8b5a3dd9.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![GroMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/4491bb/32.png) [@GroMark](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/GroMark)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2025, 5:43am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044/6 "2025-01-15T05:43:18Z")
Yeah, thanks, I already sae one of your comments on gears. You’re right I guess, it wozld be pretty hard to develop ---
**Author:** ![fusedmfg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9f8e36/32.png) [@fusedmfg](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/fusedmfg)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2025, 7:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/gear-generation-tool/36044/7 "2025-03-11T19:09:20Z")
I call B.S. on this because most of the other major CAD packages (Fusion, SolidWorks) all include thread and gear utilities. Paid Shapr3D isn’t exactly cheap, and you keep shutting down paying customers on reasonable feature requests. That’s the quickest way to get us to go back to the other programs. Is that what you really want?