next|gear is a Matlab-based calculation programme for the Design and optimisation of gearings. The software is able to calculate the geometry of gears, especially special gears with skewed axes. In addition to the gearing kinematics in the contact point, the almost restriction-free macro and micro geometry description of the reference profile is one of the unique selling points.

The analysis of the dental intervention allows the rapid Optimisation of the tooth form and flank modification with regard to contact behaviour, efficiency, angle of rotation error, service life and noise emission.

For the Calculation of a manufacturing tool another tool is available. With suitable parameterisation, hobbing or skiving tools can be generated and used for geometry calculation, for example. The calculation of reference dimensions, such as the (two-) spherical dimension, can prepare the sub-micrometre-precise surface for production and quality assurance.

The Object-orientated application in MATLAB Script and LiveScript are primarily aimed at experts who want to incorporate their expertise into the calculation process of your gearing application.

The scientific approach of next|gear was published in the journal Research in Engineering in the article An unconstrained approach to calculating the gear geometry of plastic gears described. This can here or downloaded from the website.