Gear Generator 3 on your own computer, for macOS, Windows and Linux: every export included, your designs saved as files, and no internet needed once it is activated.
Gear Generator
45 EUR
once: a lifetime license
- Everything the website does, in a window of its own
- Every export: SVG, DXF, STL and OBJ, no pass needed
- Your designs as .gg files; works offline
- macOS, Windows and Linux, on 3 computers
Gear Generator Pro
95 EUR
once: a lifetime license
- Everything Gear Generator does
- 3D gear pairs: worm, bevel and screw gears
- Web views: your gear trains on your own website
- Back and forth drives
Payment, receipt and invoice by Paddle, who sells Gear Generator for us. The license key comes by e-mail, with the link to the download page.
Everything the website does, on your computer
The same Gear Generator 3 as on geargenerator.com: spur, internal and rack gears, planetary sets, chain and belt wheel sets, shaft holes and screw holes, helical, double helical and herringbone teeth in 3D, loads and forces through the whole train. In a window of its own, with menus and keyboard shortcuts, and:
- every export, as often as you like: SVG and DXF for laser cutting, CNC and CAD drawings, STL and OBJ for 3D printing — no export pass;
- your designs as files on your computer (.gg), opened with a double-click; Gear Generator 2 files open too;
- no internet needed after the first start, and nothing about your work leaves your computer.
Gear Generator Pro
The desktop app with three things more. Pro is an app of its own, and its license opens Gear Generator too.
3D gear pairs
Gears whose axes cross, so a flat drawing can't show them: worm gears, bevel gears (straight or spiral, with an optional offset pinion) and screw gears. Each pair turns with your design's drive, shows its ratio and forces, and exports as STL and OBJ, each wheel laid out to print.
Web views
Your gear trains on your own website, in 2D or 3D, still or turning. Frame the view in the app, choose its size, and the website shows it with one script and one line of HTML:
<script src="/ggview.js" defer></script>
<div class="ggview" width="640" height="360" content="…"></div>It draws sharp at any size, turns only while it is on screen, and makes no connections of its own: nothing about your visitors goes anywhere. A theme per website matches its colours.
Back and forth
A drive that turns one way and then back, eased at every turn: for grippers, wipers and everything that swings rather than spins. The gears, the 3D pairs and the web views all follow it.
Side by side
| Website | Gear Generator | Gear Generator Pro | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free to design | 45 EUR once | 95 EUR once |
| Runs on | Any browser | Mac, Windows, Linux; 3 computers | Mac, Windows, Linux; 3 computers |
| Every gear type, holes, 3D teeth, loads | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| SVG, DXF, STL, OBJ exports | With an export pass, from 5 EUR | ✓ all included | ✓ all included |
| Your designs | In the browser, share links, .gg files | .gg files | .gg files |
| Works offline | — | ✓ | ✓ |
| 3D gear pairs: worm, bevel, screw | — | — | ✓ |
| Web views for your own website | — | — | ✓ |
| Back and forth drives | — | — | ✓ |
| Updates | Always the latest | Minor ones free | Minor ones free |
| Open it | Buy | Buy |
Good to know
- After buying, your license key comes by e-mail with the link to the download page. Enter your e-mail address and the key the first time the app starts: it needs the internet once, then works offline.
- Updates: every minor update is free; the next major version comes at a reduced upgrade price.
- Three computers per license. To move it to another one, deactivate it on the old one first (License… in the app).
- What it runs on: a Mac with Apple silicon (M1 or later) and macOS 12 or newer; Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit; a 64-bit Linux PC (Ubuntu 22.04, Debian 12, Fedora or newer, or any distribution with the AppImage). On a Mac with an Intel processor, use the website.
- Try it first: the website is the same Gear Generator 3, free to design with. Everything is in the user manual.
- Questions? Write to support@geargenerator.com.