[TOMAJA Micro Video Tutorial] How to draw a gear in seconds using PowerPoint

Can you repeat that with precision gears, so they mesh correctly?

Rotation: (gear 48)

(-#DWFMS#/0.75)

Rotation: (gear 36)

#DWFMS#
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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…

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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.