Lego Technic Gear Meshing Angle Tutorial - how to calculate gear angles
This video presents a Lego Technic tutorial for calculating the gear angle for the correct meshing of the lego gears within a lego design program such as bricklink studio. Three lego gear meshing examples are working through - the first one being a straightforward rotation of the second gear in order to mesh with the first gear which is set to zero degrees. In the second example the first gear as an arbitrary angle of rotation and the correct angle calculation of the second lego gear is demonstrated by using the angle combined with the gearing ratio between the two gears. Each of the first two examples assumed the relative position of the second lego gear is at a multiple of 90 degrees. In the third example the position of the 2nd gear is at an angle relative to the first and again the correct meshing angle is calculated. All of the examples are working through on the bricklink studio lego designer program. The examples are applicable to other programs such as lego's LDD design program.
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