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Hi All;

New version 1.15 is online. It includes the release of the new noncirculars module.,
A video is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTeOrCxq ... e=youtu.be
showing its usage. This is early on, bugs may exist. It has a alot of new code
so let me know if your badly affected. 

Thx
Art

Art, thank you for all of your hard work; Incredible!
Gpurd

Hi guys:

  Updated, same version.

-- Toothing 50% faster. Less chance of error.
-- Noncircular planetaries now working.

Few corrections from video:

1)  Tooth count is based on orders, if set to 20 teeth, a second order will have 40 teeth, not 20.
2)  It IS possible for toothing to mess up, if it does, try shifting the rack by .1 or .05 to see if it helps, it usually does. Its better
      after todays fix, but still has a chance of making bad teeth, its a very complex thing to get right and be fast at the same time
      so bear with me as it gets more stable over time. 
3) You do NOT have to make rack smaller for backlash in planetaries anymore, the program now corrects that for you, so just make the
rack wider to add backlash.

  New text added for ellipticals to show extents of gear for stock planning.

Known bugs:

        Stars spoke type is not working properly.

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Thx
Art

Hi All:

  So thats about it for Noncirculars for now I think. Im planning on doing Plateing next so that clocks and such
can be cased decoratively in boxing made by Gearotic. I will however be taking off on vacation shortly to get some sunlight
to refresh my batteries.  Once the weather improves Ill be taking the summer off for other than bug fixes to focus on a
project or two. Perhaps a new ticker or maybe something with some electronics thrown in that we can publish here as well.
    We've been playing with Arduino's and such and are thinking of making something that looks cool, we're just not sure exactly
what as yet. I'll keep you posted on plans as they get developed.

  I forgot to refresh my antifreeze in my workshop, so my laser tube shattered this winter, so next month I'll be putting in a new
CO2 tube.. that should be interesting... And they tell me theres no market for broken CO2 tubes..go figure...

Anyway.., have fun
Art

Man, you're shop must have gotten really cold to be at −78.5 ?C (freezing temp of CO2)

  Its the damn water cooling that'll get you.. but then...it IS Canada....


Art

**Just SUPERB **
...Non circular + spokes are really,really great !
Thanks!!

ArtF wrote:.Once the weather improves Ill be taking the summer off for ...

So about July?  After the weekend blizzard (10 foot high snowdrifts) the temp here is headed back into the negative Fahrenheits.  Better weather might be skipping this year and waiting for 2015.

Go someplace warm soon, or more than that CO2'll be freezing.  After plating, although there's that whole Internet thing where you can work on the beach.

Kirk

Actually, in a couple weeks Ill be laying on a Puerto Rico beach for seven days of forgetting all I know. ( that shouldn't take long..).

  Then Ill consider exactly how the hell to do plating, I never liked GM's solution, too nasty to implement. Ill consider my options
for awhile before I set about doing that.


>>.Non circular + spokes are really,really great !

  Glad you like them, every once in a while as I finish a module I think "Man, people'll like this one..", the non-circular was
such a module. I rewrote a bit of the spoking code to make them as nice as I could, and you'll find even the circular gears
spoking is a bit better under this version. The toothing speed amazed me when I figured a way to speed it up, its at least
10 times faster than GM and 10 times more accurate, I'm pretty pleased overall. GT is now starting to look like a proper
replacement for GM. Im slowly making actual headway. lol

Have fun
Art

What's wrong with laying out on the floor of the bar and cut the middle man out ?