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> This is only a prototype. But it would be nice to get some feedback on this functionality Such a "connector" can be a nice thing for some quick demonstration...

> "pinion/gear" or "pinion/wheel" offers a false distinction without conveying any pertinent information. driver/driven is semantically useful but so **nearly** **identical** as words that you need to constantly re-read to...

@mwganson There is a follow-up to the already mentioned #72 (make gears attachable): #74 (improve PartDesign support). When starting the work on the later, I also thought that providing "subtractive...

@mwganson Would you mind creating an article in the FreeCAD wiki on how to extend PartDesign objects using Python? I remember having a hard time finding all the relevant stuff...

Here is a little demonstration what works so far. I recreated the example from [Fig. 5-1 on page T23 of QTC Gear's Technote](https://qtcgears.com/tools/catalogs/PDF_Q420/Tech.pdf) (α = 20° , z1 = 16,...

@luzpaz tl;dr: Still working on it; slowly, but steadily. I'm currently trying to create the helical variants without using boolean cut operations. Those are quite slow an suffer from coplanar...

@looooo within the constraints of the PR's description, I consider this now ready for merging. Please tell me what you think. I'm not aware of backward compatibility issues. However, commit...

> I see some issues with the boolean operation (see attached image) At a first glance this looks like the coplanar issue my first (and awfully slow) implementation had. Are...

I will retarget the feature to the develop branch.

> I will retarget the feature to the develop branch. Hey, I've just seen you already did that. Cool, thanks. I guess we can close this PR now (because you...