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Making A Spur Gear with 3dsmax 

 

1. Draw a circle of radius 100 in the front view.

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2. Right click the Move tool and set x=0, y=0, z=0.

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3. Draw another small circle as below. Click "Affect Pivot Only" and locate its pivot point to x=0, y=0, z=0.

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4. Again click Affect "Pivot Only" to turn it off. Click the Array tool. In the Array window put z = 360 in the "Rotate" of "Total" and "Count" = 14.

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5. Click OK and you will see like the following.

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6 .Select the large circle and then click Attach Multiple in the Modifier panel.

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8. Then select Edit spline and select spline.

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10. Select the large circle. It will turn red. Then select Boolean and then substract.

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11. Click the small circles one by one and lastly you will see like this-

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12. Click Sub-Object to turn off. Again draw a small circle in its center.Attach both circles in the Modify panel.

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13. Extrude the object to about 8 units.

14. In the Perspective view Render the scene.

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N.B.  To make the steps easier I used circle for making teeth. Actually the teeth is not a circular one.But dont worry. Here you draw the shape of one tooth and do the same procedure.