Since cycloidal gears are not your everyday tooth form, I had to make a generator. (You can approximate a cycloidal gear with arcs of alternating concavity. I don't think that will be good enough for the gear joint. Near perfect constant gear ratio is needed to remove tooth artifacts from a print. I don't want to trade in lead screw artifacts for gear artifacts.) You will need python and the dxfwrite module.
You can import the dxf into OpenSCAD, Solidworks, or Inventor. Here is an example helical cyclodial gear I made in Inventor from the import.
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You can import the dxf into OpenSCAD, Solidworks, or Inventor. Here is an example helical cyclodial gear I made in Inventor from the import.
