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Gearbox Design Guide
Overview
Gearboxes are used in a number of the more advanced buildings, normally to add a unique cost for each construction. Each gearbox takes an input shaft rotating and converts it via a gear train into up to 3 outputs. The process of designing a gearbox is to figure out which ratios are needed and to implement those ratios in the form of positioning various sizes of connected gears on a Gearbox Assembly Table.
Gearbox design
Gears
There are 5 gear sizes available, measured by their number of teeth (or relative number of teeth):
| Gear Size | Item | Metal cost | Wax cost | CC cost (student) | CC cost (master) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Spacer | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 3 | Small Gear | 2 Brass | 2 | 1 | 0.8 (batch of 10) |
| 4 | Small Gear | 2 Brass | 2 | 1 | 0.8 (batch of 10) |
| 5 | Medium Gear | 15 Iron | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| 6 | Medium Gear | 15 Iron | 15 | 5 | 10 |
| 7 | Large Gear | 100 Iron | 100 | N/A | 40 |
