I will give you a detailed analysis of the Illustrator software and share with you the tutorial on designing gears.
Tutorial sharing:
Open Illustrator10, select the star tool in the toolbar, and click on the page. The selection panel of the star tool is displayed. In the panel, enter: Radius 1: 22mm (this value can be changed by yourself); radius 2: 0mm (this value remains unchanged); Star number: 20 (this value can also be changed by yourself ).
After confirmation, the radial image shown in the figure is displayed.
For this star stroke, enter 15pt in the stroke panel.
Such a rough stroke forms the gear effect.
Select this gear again, and choose object> path> stroke contour from the menu.
At this time, the original radial star's on-site structure is changed to the on-site structure of the Sawtooth outer edge as shown in the figure above.
(That is to say, the original radiation bar is converted to the outer frame path) then the star disappears and completely changes the sawtooth.
[Ctrl + Y] switch to the sketch mode and you will find that the original radial line still exists.
Pull it out. The conversion tool generates a new gear, but the star path is not deleted. Manually delete it.
OK. The outer gear is finished.
Use an elliptical tool. To make a small positive circle, move it, and the center of the outer edge of the gear coincidence.
Select the two objects and click the button shown in the preceding figure on the Pathfinder.
This is to subtract a small incircle from the drawing of the outer edge of the gear to form an object.
As shown in the figure, when the operation is completed, the center of the small circle is gone. Click the expand button to complete the gear chart.
Select the scaling tool to slowly stretch the gear. Until you are satisfied with the results.
Floor plan of the gear.
If you have installed KPT Vectoretiects, you can select 3D effects to perform 3D deformation on the gear. If not, you can use the new feature of illustrator CS to get the 3D effect gear.
The random deformation of the Relen produces strange gears.
Even if you don't have the special effects of Illustrator and KPT in CS, you can get it. Follow Relen to perform the following operations.
Copy a single-sided gear.
Overlap them.
Copy a pair of blue-sided gears and place them next to them. It will be useful in the future.
Select a hybrid tool to mix colors of two gears.
Mixed effect.
Duplicate the blue single-sided gear to the top layer.
In this way, we can get a three-dimensional gear effect chart.
If you are not satisfied with the color, you can modify the color.
All right, the above information is the detailed tutorial on designing gears for the users of Illustrator's software, you can see the users here. I believe that you are very clear about the drawing method, so you can draw your own gear according to the tutorials shared by Xiaobian.
