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I hadn't seen that one...WOW.
BUT, if you look below the picture of the thing, there is an 'App' button that will take you to the app that creates the planetary gear set which lets you customize it.

I found the gears I made with it were touching. I didn't read ALL of the instructions so will need ...

Thanks to you both.

Art.
I found a guy who made an app that lets you make a customized planetary 3D file for 3D printing.
Take a look at his code. Could make your job easier....or not.
Hope it does;

http://customizer.makerbot.com/docs

Thanks Art.
That helped.....so simple once you've done it once.
Making the Ring and Sun gear divisible by six worked like a champ, which with your equations made the pinion for me.

After I made the excel file I saw you placed a zip file on the post lol.

Thanks again.

When you get to the planetary ...

Art,
I used your formula which worked well for four planets but I cant get it to work with six.
Is there an update coming that calculates planetary gears?

I have an excel file with the formulas but I dont think i can upload it.
jbc

Thanks Hessel.
I'll look at those links. I saw your post's edit but might help nonetheless.

I went onto the SPD/SI website and saw the details I need for racks. A lot better than some of the other sites I've visited that just sell metal with teeth on a side lol.
Their gear specs might help me with ...

I plan on buying one that fits my need and then making the gear. What info am I looking for?
Distance between teeth? pitch? Depth...I have no clue.

Here is how I envision this;
I find a rack I want to purchase online.
I look at the specifications of that rack and plug that data into Gearotic which ...

I plan on buying a rack for a rack and pinion gear project and would like to know if it's possible to make a gear for it?

Is it possible?
How do I find the rack's details to plug into Gearotic so they would match?

Jbc

You don't say what slicing program you're using, but most of them will generate a somewhat easily removable support structure .
I used to use slic3r but find Cura is faster and has a feature list I appreciate more.

The supports I've tried in the past add another wrinkle to cleanup.
I try to ...

Great thanks.

Is there a way to make the side of the beveled gear as thick as the teeth are tall?
Here is a picture of two beveled gears.
The one e on the right shows the teeth is extending above the side of the gear.
I would love to see an ability to bring the side out to create a thicker beveled ...

First off i dont know 'gear' terminology so please forgive my ignorance.

I am making gears and saving them as an stl file to print on my 3D printer .
I would like to create gears without the shaft collar so I can start my print job on the flat side of a beveled gear (using beveled gear because I am ...