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Not your usual project here, I know, but I got fed up with using incomplete charts and manually figuring out what I can and can't divide with the plates I have, so I've been coding up a calculator!
You feed it a list of hole patterns you have available and the ratio of your dividing head, then what you want to divide and it'll tell you if it's possible, which plate to choose and how many turns/holes. If there are multiple solutions, it'll list them. The really clever stuff is yet to come - it'll calculate differential dividing too for divisions you can't get with plates alone if fed a list of change gears.
Windows only, as I'm already familiar with C# and Visual Studio, but it ought to be easy enough to port if someone feels like it. I'll open source it with a free pre-compiled executable once I'm happy that it's at least good enough for an initial release. Hooray for these wonderful software development tools being FREE!
Excellent video on differential dividing here:
I'm really excited to get cutting some gears
Stay tuned!
You feed it a list of hole patterns you have available and the ratio of your dividing head, then what you want to divide and it'll tell you if it's possible, which plate to choose and how many turns/holes. If there are multiple solutions, it'll list them. The really clever stuff is yet to come - it'll calculate differential dividing too for divisions you can't get with plates alone if fed a list of change gears.
Windows only, as I'm already familiar with C# and Visual Studio, but it ought to be easy enough to port if someone feels like it. I'll open source it with a free pre-compiled executable once I'm happy that it's at least good enough for an initial release. Hooray for these wonderful software development tools being FREE!
Excellent video on differential dividing here:
I'm really excited to get cutting some gears
Stay tuned!