Gear Creator is a Maya plugin to easily create / edit complex gear netowks. The plugin is still in early alpha.
Rather than creating a gear at a time and then positionning manually, the philosophy of this plugin is not so much of creating individual gears but complete gear networks. Therefore:
- Gears are created from a parent gear, they can't be created freely.
- Their placement is automatic:
they can only be rotated around neighour gears
changing the radius / internal radius will adjust position for current gear / rest of the network
Code is here: https://github.com/roma-p/Maya_GearCreator