Question on Involute Gear Generation

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WESIII
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Question on Involute Gear Generation

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Does the FreeCAD Involute Gear generator module/model include a factor for Gear Backlash, or alternatively, does it assume/calculate a "perfect" mesh?
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Re: Question on Involute Gear Generation

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Hi and welcome to the forum!

These are the properties you can set for a gear:
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Re: Question on Involute Gear Generation

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I am not seeing all those options in the data window. Thought it might be using Version 0.19, so I installed 0.20 after uninstalling 0.19.

How do I find/modify those additional options?
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Re: Question on Involute Gear Generation

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WESIII wrote: Fri Aug 12, 2022 6:25 pm I am not seeing all those options in the data window. Thought it might be using Version 0.19, so I installed 0.20 after uninstalling 0.19.
You should rather/also update the Gears workbench. I have these versions

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OS: macOS 10.16
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.21.29997 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
Hash: b52967d52ac46eff7c59e74d991f3f5b298944ef
Python 3.10.5, Qt 5.15.4, Coin 4.0.0, Vtk 9.1.0, OCC 7.6.2
Locale: C/Default (C)
Installed mods: 
  * FC_SU
  * FeedsAndSpeeds 0.4.0
  * fcgear 1.0.0
  * fasteners 0.3.51
  * sheetmetal 0.2.56
  * ExplodedAssembly
  * Curves 0.5.4
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