Hello Everyone
I have created a gear in gn.
For the teeth I am extruding a modulo portion of the outside faces (~6 faces).
The faces are extruded in a curve and I want them to be in a straight line, like I drew with the outside blue line.
Approach 1:
Use one face-position as a max distance and move all faces to that distance and rotate the faces, so that they create one plane.
I need some kind of face projection from the outer curve to a straight line that is located at the length of the tooth.
Maybe make a lower res gear then use it to snap position to?
Hope that helps
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Yes, I tried that, so that only one side is extruded, but I need a higher resolution to have not a pure 1:1 ratio for teeth and spaces.
I found a workaround.
I create a cylinder around with the side count of my teeth, rotate it by 0.5 step of the radian.
Then I use geometry proximity to “raycast” to the cylinder and then set the position of the faces to that.
(Afterwards I scale the teeth fronts down for a better look)
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