Here is the Gears.inc file I came up with a while back. All you need do is 
include it (obviously) abd call the Gear() macro passing the number of teeth 
as a parameter. You can then scale, rotate etc the result.

Rarius

"Xanthra" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> I've been struggling with this for a while and not having any luck.
> Google shows that there used to be some includes and macros in the links 
> pages
> that could generate gears, but they all seem to be long gone.
>
> Would anyone here be able to share how one might make realistic looking 
> gears
> with
> POV-Ray ?  I've read up on hobbing and involute geometry, but I can't 
> figure out
> how to translate that into SDL : (
>
> Thanks,
> -X
>
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