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How to create cogs in Illustrator

Andreas Keppler
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Sep 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020

Hi,

I have to make a technical illustration in Illustrator. It should show the main drive of a car. That means some cogs driven by a toothed belt. But how to design cogs with rounded teeth? All descriptions and tutorials show solutions using circles and stars – but the outcome always contains sharp edges. In my illustration the cogs have to have round edges (like the cogs of a bicycle).

Help!!

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Monika Gause Community Expert
Community Expert , Sep 14, 2020 Sep 14, 2020

Diese Zahnkränze habe ich konstruiert.

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nur so geht das exakt. Ein Musterpinsel würde immer verzerrt werden, wenn der Pfad in Kurven geht.

Einen Stern runden geht mit dem Ecken-Widget: Stern aktivieren und dann mit dem Direktauswahl-WZ das Widget ziehen:

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Ich konnte das in dem Beispielbild nicht so genau sehen, aber einige der Zahnräder sahen so aus (es sei denn, diesind im Detail noch etwas anders)

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Monika Gause Community Expert
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Sep 17, 2020 Sep 17, 2020
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Awesome. Thanks for showing!

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Kurt Gold Community Expert
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The mechanic who will probably have to do the maintenance work for this thing may earn a lot of money in case the entire construction is built based on your final illustration.

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