• INTRODUCTION
• ABOUT INKSCAPE
• ABOUT SVG
• THE INKSCAPE INTERFACE
• WORKING WITH FILES
• TOOLBOX
• SELECT TOOL
• NODE TOOL
• TWEAK TOOL
• ZOOM TOOL
• RECTANGLE TOOL
• 3D BOX TOOL
• ELLIPSE TOOL
• STAR TOOL
• SPIRAL TOOL
• PENCIL TOOL
• PEN TOOL
• CALLIGRAPHY TOOL
• BUCKET FILL TOOL
• TEXT TOOL
• CONNECTOR TOOL
• GRADIENT TOOL
• DROPPER TOOL
• PATHS
• MODIFY PATH
• TEXT
• STYLING TEXT
• TEXT EFFECTS
• TEXT AND PATHS
• MULTIPLE OBJECT OPERATIONS
• COPY, CLONE, & DUPLICATE
• CLIP AND MASK
• POSITIONING OBJECTS
• INTRODUCTION
• ALIGN AND DISTRIBUTE
• ORGANISING OBJECTS
• LAYERS
• GROUPING
• STYLING OBJECTS
• INTRODUCTION
• FILL AND STROKE
• STROKE STYLE
• COLOR PALETTE
• LIVE PATH EFFECTS
• INTRODUCTION
• GEARS
• PATTERN ALONG PATH
• KNOT
• SVG FILTERS
• INTRODUCTION
• ADVANCED
• COLOR MANAGEMENT
• GENERATE TEMPLATE
• TUTORIALS
• INSTALLING ON WINDOWS
• CREATING ICONS
• APPENDICES
• CREDITS

Gears

The Gears effect is a toy effect. It generates a chain of interconnected gears from the path that has the effect applied to it. The nodes of the path define the centers of the gears. The first 3 nodes are special; the first defines the start angle of the chain, the second defines the center of the first gear and the third knot specifies the radius of the first gear. That is, to create a chain of 2 gears, you will need a path with 4 nodes; for 3 gears, 5 nodes, and so on.