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@Doug Hunter This video touches on that topic of involute vs cycloidal teeth in a cycloidal drive: From this paper: "In an ideal cycloidal drive, all roller pins contact the cycloidal gear, and about half the roller pins bear the load." I'm not sure if this distributed load bearing is possible...

I suggest you do a bit of reading about cycloidal drives if you're unfamiliar with them (see the wiki link above).

Thanks for the suggestions! @mfgenggear That calculator appears to be for pairs of cycloidal gears but the type of gear that I'm interested in is a bit different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cycloidal_drive.

@mfgenggear Thanks for the recommendations. I downloaded the "Handbook of Practical Gear Design" and went through all the control+F results for "cycloid" and didn't find what I was after. Let me know if you have other suggestions. About manufaturing, CNC milling seems like an option for...

I'm designing a bi-cycloidal drive like the one shown here: (mesmerizing eh?) Bi-cycloidal drives like this include both a male cycloidal gear and a female cycloidal gear. The male cycloidal gear can be considered the sun gear, where the pins are radially outside of the cycloidal gear, and the...