Well the reason I need something like PowerPoint(which I have always had, just never imagined graphic design with it) is because at work I cannot use Photoshop. So I needed an alternative. For most of my other Photoshop needs I use www.pixlr.com
So I will start messing around with PowerPoint until I perfect it, then implement it on a watch design.
This was just to see my new gears in motion 
I think i would loose that championship, lol.
I am working with a stone old PS6.0-Version. Need a Sponsor for a new one… 
I could construct a gear like that in Autocad in minutes and do the texturing in Photoshop, that‘s my way…
So good But Autocad is also not the cheapest product on the market…
Fascinating. I’m a Photoshop girl and would never have thought to use PowerPoint.
I use both but didn’t realise you could get such good results with PowerPoint!
the latest versions of Powerpoint are really close to a graphic software and they have incredible value for the micro money you pay…
Nice tutorial thank you, I do not use photoshop or powerpoint I use solidworks for gear design or any other designs.
Ah, but Fusion 360 is - I love it for technical drawing and 3D design.
Quick question since I wanted to try this magic out. What size are you making these? Do you change the slide size or just go for a overall shape size. after you create it, how do you save as a transparent png?
… I am not home at my desktop right now, so I just try to describe it with words
1 - square slide size is an clear advantage… I use 10 cm x 10 cm square, which gives me perfect resolution for facer creator
2 - saving as png is the most easiest thing on the world, you ever did please just select whatever you like (objects in powerpoint) and use right mouse button… there is something like “save picture as”…
Not as experienced as @Tomas but, I did my test one at 4.3" x 4.3" and just scaled down for watch…to save as a picture you select it (click on it) then right click, then save as picture. and just change the type to PNG before you save it.
Neat. I just did a presentation for a promotion at work and reminded me to check out your method of using PowerPoint. So far looks like a cool tool to use. Could the same be done in MS Word. Any benefit for one over the other? I wonder about Visio as well.
Hi @eradicator09 , the main difference between MS Word and MS PowerPoint I see according to watch face design is the “floating” of text and objects in Word. Due to Visio I do not have any experiences yet.
Can you repeat that with precision gears, so they mesh correctly?
Rotation: (gear 48)
(-#DWFMS#/0.75)
Rotation: (gear 36)
#DWFMS#See my example now using your gears. But to get them to mesh correctly I had to modify your code a little, and I did seconds instead of minutes to for viewing.
Rotation: (gear 48)
(-#DWFSS#/0.75)
Rotation: (gear 36)
(#DWFSS#/0.56)
of course if you watch close enough it could possibly tweaked a little more, but this looks close.
I should test my own figures first … The use of minute rotation is a better choice. You can colour or fill the gears as long as you don’t effect the size/scale, outer outline or centre.
Try scaling the gear sizes (in pixels) to correct ratio.
eg.
x0.2 :: 191.6 x 191.6 145.8 x 145.8
x0.1 :: 95.8 x 95.8 72.9 x 72.9
The rotation ratio should be 0.75 (with larger gear being slower). The smaller gear can be adjusted by a few degree to advance the cogs (1 cog width = 10 degrees, so try +/-5).
That is amazing, never thought of using PowerPoint to create graphics, let alone 3d graphics
Much appreciated…
You’d be surprised what you can do with it. It helped speed up some of my designs that I don’t have time to use Photoshop for.