Gear Project is a software tool that creates gear designs in OpenOffice Draw, making it easy for users to create custom gear designs for various applications.
When exploring how the program works, I unzipped an Open Office drawing and examined the lines in the file. From there, I was able to automatically generate these lines into the content.xml file, and re-zip everything to produce a valid document. It's great to have access to open formats that are easily readable - this software definitely meets those criteria.
It's important to note that the archive containing this program includes an 'odg' directory with all the files necessary for a valid OpenOffice drawing. To use Gear Project, make sure to run the program in a place where this odg directory is present. For example, if the archive was unzipped into a temp directory, the resulting file tree should look like "temp/gear/odg," and the program should be run from the "temp/gear" directory. Though this may seem complex at first, the process is straightforward, and users will quickly get the hang of it.