Complex and Clean Topology Gears with Blender in Minutes

With this easy array rotation technique and some modifier tricks you can quickly create complex gears in Blender within minutes. The gear we create in this Blender tutorial makes use of the simple deform modifier to create a twisted effect. With a few tricks we will heavily reduce and optimize the topology of the gear and bevel all the edges.
Download the project files here: rescan.gumroad.com/l/easy-gears
00:00 Intro
00:26 Preperation
01:43 Array Modifier
02:33 Creating the gear profile
03:23 Bevelling
04:06 Reducing Topology
06:54 Mirror Modifier
07:51 Twist Effect
08:15 Filling the center
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[@saniancreations]

This is the best tutorial when you're trying to make large gears. The rotational symmetry that you get from using the Array modifier is exactly what I needed. All other videos just assume you'll be able to quickly select the whole outer ring and apply transformations that way.

[@adambarry1455]

Exactly what I needed. Thanks!

[@torniki2131]

amazing tutorial thank you

[@fn3x321]

As a beginner this is very helpful 👍

[@keshiuy]

Спасибо, огромное! Всё ясно и чётко!!!

[@gustavoalvarez3335]

Hola muchas gracias por la técnica de creación súper genial. Saludos Hi thank you so much for the super cool creation technique. Greetings

[@zephaniahdejene1746]

So underrated

[@JoseMartinez-iq3xq]

Excelent

[@amcomma]

Hey you may know this already but easier way of rotating than array modifier is using (F3 ->) spin command!

[@Rescan]

Didn't know that. Pretty useful 💪

[@evgeniydeus8137]

It seems though that this method won't allow you to tweak the profile after spinning.

[@skybyte4me]

400th

[@EpicWorkout]

Полезно, но много лишних приемов. Можно и проще сделать

[@MrPokemon7777]

“no object in real life have very sharp edges” Knifes: *am i a joke to you?*

[@Empry28]

Your triangles wrong

[@onlyonutube]

Don't be a drive-by complainer. Explain why and what to do differently.

[@Empry28]

@@onlyonutube Sorry, I meant to say that it's better not to use quad where one point kind of falls inward. You can see that at 5:03. These squares can cause shading problems

[@onlyonutube]

@@Empry28 Thank you. That's extremely helpful to know. Appreciate you making the effort to update your post. I would have never figured out why the shading didn't look right.

[@ConorFenlon]

Only in the comment section of a Blender tutorial video will you find conflict, followed by a healthy, responsible, and helpful response in return. Legendary.

[@stoopidbastid6420]

Far too complicated. Why not just generate a gear with the add-on and use the simple deform mod? You can do a soft bevel after. 30 seconds tops

[@denvercity809]

Don't show this "clean topology" to an actual engineer working with gears... 😁

[@U8Kio]

Such geometry turned out to be of poor quality