The Cog Wheel plug-in creates a cog wheel. It has a range of properties to adjust the look of the cog wheel.

To avoid decreasing the system performance, set the tessellation to a lower value since it does not make much difference in quality.

Note: This plug-in is located in: Plugins -> Geom plug-ins -> Default

Cog Wheel Properties

Use LOD: Enables/disables dynamic level of detail.
Tesselation: Sets the level of detail.
Corners: Sets the number of corners the cogwheel is to be constructed of. The cog wheel gets one tooth for each corner, so the number of teeth changes correspondingly.
Height: Sets the height or width of the cog wheel.
Tooth height: Sets the height of the cog wheel teeth.
Diameter: Sets the diameter of the cog wheel.
Hole: Creates and sets the size of a hole in the cog wheel.
Bevel: Sets the degree of bevel at the cog wheel.
Inner Bevel: Enables or disables bevel in the cog wheel hole.
Show Top: Enables or disables visualization of the top.
Show Bottom: Enables or disables visualization of bottom.
Center: Allows you to select where the geometrical center should be placed on the cog wheel: Either Center, Bottom or Top.

To Create a Cogwheel

Add the Cog Wheel plug-in to a container.
Add a material to the same container.
Set Hole parameter to 50.0.
Set the transformation parameters for the container to: R otation X: 90.0 , Y: 45.0 and Z: -45.0 .