Creating good looking gears

Hey everybody,

I´m just trying to create a gear in Blender 2.63. I know that there is a built-in addon in mesh/extra objects/gears but the gear which is produced that way doesn´t look really good for me because I intend to use my 3D Printer to print it and thus I would need a good quality and especially a nice curvature of the teeths for functional gears.

The best solution that I´ve found so far is to use OpenScad and the for example one of those scripts:


to generate a gear and import it as a .stl into blender what looks pretty good.

But it would be great to be able to manipulate let´s say the number of teeths in blender without having to import it again. Does anybody know how to generate high quality gears in blender?

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