Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing
Details
- External ID
- 46524036
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Free and local browser tool for designing gear models for 3D printing
- Website domain
- dmtrkovalenko.dev
- Launched
- Jan. 7, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 53
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.80566534914361
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Just build a local tool for designing gears that kinda looks and works nice
Enrichment
- Theme
- creative coding and visual experiments
- Vertical
- Manufacturing
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Prosumer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- gear model designer for 3d printing
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Parametric 2D/3D gear generation relies on well-documented involute gear mathematical formulas, easily implemented in a browser using Three.js and an STL/3MF exporter.
Discussion
13 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Google AI Studio, Free Cad's Gear Workbench, Fusion360
Concerns raised: Only works one-way, bidirectional compatibility requires symmetrical gear design, STL and 3MF not compatible with most CAD software, Generated gears don't mesh properly with each other without manual adjustment
Feature requests: STEP export for CAD software customization, 2D DXF export for broader CAD compatibility, Other gear types like bevel gears and gear racks, Output corresponding/complementary gear automatically
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 205 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #35 of 206 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 63 days after the earliest competitor.
- ilove3d · ph · 2026-09-22 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- We built a tool that generates 3D objects with editable, separate parts · hn · 2026-05-08 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- ToolPix · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- layerling · github · 2026-09-16 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- AdaShape-3D modeler for intuitive 3D printing parts / Windows 11 · hn · 2026-04-04 · 32 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- DigitalOnDay · ph · 2026-09-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- STL Emboss · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- CADara · hn · 2026-05-08 · 37 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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