Working gears, how should it be done?

Watchface Design
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Hi,
so im trying to implement some working gears, and my question is:

is this how you should make it?

For the reverse gear i used the expression ( -#DWFSS#)

Is this correct?

Thank you and im loving this ! :smiley:

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Absolutly right.

If you want them faster or slower use a factor.

(#DWFSS#*0.5)

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Thank you!
i thought it would be harder!

Another thing: i’ve seen someone using If Else statments, For cycles and so on… can it be used?? For what purpose?

Thanks again!

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You can combine actions, make them timebased.

For example show an specific object every second or fade in after 2 second after the watch awakens from dim mode and many other things.

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makes sense!

thank you so much!

Andre

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You are correct, but not quite correct.

The two gears will match cycles (other than +ve/-ve) only if they have same gear pitch, are drawn to the same scale, and have the same number of teeth. Otherwise, the speed ratio is the number-of-teeth to number-of-teeth.

Try with these, to practice: (8 & 12 teeth pinion(s), 24 tooth wheel) [filename: gear/pinion teeth pitch centre]

eg.

gear 24:  #DWFSS#
pinion 12: (-#DWFSS#*24/12+(360/12)*0.0))

Change 0.0 to 0.5 (or 0.25) to fully mesh gear teeth.

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And: gear 36 12 6

PS. I just made these quickly, and place NO restriction on their (re-)use.

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oh i get it! we have to sync the gears so they look perfectly alligned!