Sprocket drawing program?

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plain ol Bill
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Sprocket drawing program?

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Hi folks - I need to make some sprockets and there is a shareware program that will draw them for you and I have forgotten it's name. Old age senility setting in yet again. Anyone remember what program that is and where to find it?
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Re: Sprocket drawing program?

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Re: Sprocket drawing program?

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The post Gamelord attached works fine but if you are just cutting for gear shapes for a sign as shown I would use Inkscape as you can then save it in SVG or DXF and your ready to cut.
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Re: Sprocket drawing program?

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I have used Sprocketeer to design gears and it worked very well. I haven't tried Inkscape as Acourtjester suggests, but it seems like it should work good also. I have also used the program in the link below, and it worked very well also.

https://woodgears.ca/gear/index.html

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