How do I get one gear to spin another?

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Galane
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How do I get one gear to spin another?

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I have a couple of proper involute spur gears, imported from DXF. How do I get one to spin the other? I have their properties set to iron, collision with peers is on. What I get is when I try to rotate one it just hits the teeth on the other and stops instead of rotating the other gear.
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Re: How do I get one gear to spin another?

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Make sure friction is very low, also sometimes linking rotation values in the LE with a math multiplier helps also (very exact)
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Re: How do I get one gear to spin another?

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The was a plugin called VcTek. virtual caledonia does not exist but you check the internet.
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Re: How do I get one gear to spin another?

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Would be nice if Dave Wilson would release his trueSpace stuff if he's no longer working on it. All I find searching for it are a bunch of sites offering it for sale, but how does one know if the author actually gets any of the money?