Version 4.82 online

[ArtF]

Hi All:

Version 4.82 is online and correct a problem with racks always being in metric. They shoudl work fine
now in inches as well.

Thx
Art

[John T]

Hi Art,
I now have a new problem,  I get an error message.

John

[lutz ifer]

Hi,
i dont know,is this a bug? Look at the Wheel and Pinion corners in the drop down menu and at the millimeter paper. Is the Pitch Diameter correct?

I have a question. In the version 4.75 is the option to import dxf. Is it possible in the future to import own dxf?
Thanks for the new possibility with the GTA.

Regards Felix

[ArtF]

Hi Felix:

  Does look like a bug. Ill check it out.

As to DXF, Im still struggling with a way to allow it without breaking
my complexity rules. It does have a future, I just havent as yet determined
exactly what that future is. In fact GM has quite a bit of code in it that no-one ever see's
as I use GM as an experimental platform for most research I do into future possabilities
for growth. The DXF was just too complex for the average person, and had too many things that
had to be set just-so before it would actually work for anything.

  It has been mathmatically proven that any two gears that mesh are in fact a modified elliptical
shape. A circle is an ellipse of zero eccentricity, a modified ellipse with eccentricy , or periodic
functions added to the elliptical definitions can basically produce any gear that WILL work
as a gear in the end. BUT, DXF imports had no such guarentee that a gear could actually be
created from the input shape. I played a great deal with shapes and decided as yet, it will too
picky and you had to know too much to put it out as a general algorithm for the user.


  That having been said, I do have plans for the dxf's at some point in the future.

Art