Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587 [Archive]

n1ckd2012

08-06-2012, 13:00

This week we are launching our weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming challenges for our new members.

Feel free to follow along here (https://docs.google.com/folder/d/0BzBrFVXr3ro9RG1JZmFaRzdOMTQ/edit)!

New tasks will be posted every friday and will be announced through our facebook (https://www.facebook.com/DiscoBots2587), & twitter (https://twitter.com/#!/discobots)

Feedback and task ideas are welcome!

Thanks,

Nick

emekablue

09-06-2012, 00:34

This is a really cool idea! We'll be sure to follow.

Andrew Remmers

09-06-2012, 11:03

OOOO RENDER!!!! I shall Do this! Next week at my work computer.

- Andrew

timytamy

10-06-2012, 08:54

Nice,

Just wanted to say thanks for doing this. I've sent this to everyone on my team, and I'm turning it into a friendly competition. So far one person (from Media of all places) has started sending me answers.

Since we didn't have access to your SVN I gave them this to do:

2012-06-10: Time to work out the date
You may have noticed that I have like to use 24 hour time. You may have also noticed the dates are in a weird format. Your task is to reply to me as to why I use these weird formats AND why would I use this for version control?
Bonus: Tell me why I started from 0 in the rules.

Can't wait to see what you set in the coming weeks.

n1ckd2012

10-06-2012, 13:06

Nice,
Since we didn't have access to your SVN...

Future tasks will accessible by the public.

Glad you like the program!

Grim Tuesday

10-06-2012, 13:52

This is a very cool idea, I would love to get some of my team to participate!

daniel_dsouza

10-06-2012, 14:21

render complete. took me about 2 hrs with 2 (slow) 1.5Ghz cores using Photoview 360 and Solidworks 2011

Your mechanical challenge is interesting.

O'Sancheski

11-06-2012, 10:13

Don't know how many renders we are allowed to post but I came up with three pretty good ones.

n1ckd2012

11-06-2012, 12:53

Don't know how many renders we are allowed to post but I came up with three pretty good ones.

Sweet renders. More the merrier.

avanboekel

11-06-2012, 12:56

Tried to pull up the .stp file, and it crashed Inventor :mad: All of these renders look great!

Akash Rastogi

11-06-2012, 16:06

Don't know how many renders we are allowed to post but I came up with three pretty good ones.

These are sweet! Fix the bumper fabric though as well as putting the robot on the ground. You'll get much nicer shadows. That third one is my favorite.

stundt1

11-06-2012, 17:38

I didn't want to have my integerated graphics render all day so I rendered it on a low setting.

Joe did you color some of the parts or something because in solid works it didn't come all black for me?

Robots look much better without bumpers.....

http://i1032.photobucket.com/albums/a405/stundt1/33.jpg

O'Sancheski

11-06-2012, 22:00

Joe did you color some of the parts or something because in solid works it didn't come all black for me?

Yes I did color some of the parts to get the closest thing to the actual robot.

Akash, I'll edit the bumper texture and post a new pic.

EDIT: Added new render. Don't really know if I got the fabric right.

Akash Rastogi

11-06-2012, 22:44

EDIT: Added new render. Don't really know if I got the fabric right.

Nice! Is that the finest you could go with the material? Play around with the blurr of the shadow as well, it will give it a more realistic look.

The camera orientation and lighting from your previous post looked much nicer than this one. The second and third from the last post.

Adam.garcia

11-06-2012, 23:01

These weekly Challenges are a very great way to keep students interactive throughout the summer.

I'm definitely going to pass these challenges on to our team.

Thanks

O'Sancheski

11-06-2012, 23:16

Nice! Is that the finest you could go with the material? Play around with the blurr of the shadow as well, it will give it a more realistic look.

The camera orientation and lighting from your previous post looked much nicer than this one. The second and third from the last post.

The orientation on the X and Y axis keep getting offset so that's why I think the lighting is a little strange. I'll go back and set the axis' back to the way I want the and shoot another one.

n1ckd2012

12-06-2012, 01:34

I see lots of Solid Works users. Any Inventor users willing to give this render a shot? =)

emekablue

12-06-2012, 03:53

http://i.imgur.com/RB8xA.png

Creo render with Perspective View.

IanW

12-06-2012, 15:35

Here's a rendering done via Autodesk's software. It was modified in Inventor and rendered in Showcase. Admittedly, Autodesk's "make it pretty" button is a bit clunkier/harder to use than SolidWorks' offering in PhotoView 360.

Andrew Remmers

13-06-2012, 10:48

First Render Run of the day, Mind you this is one of my first renders using Solidworks so its not the best it could be. Ill update this post as I make more.

You might notice I have a different color scheme, figured I'd play with it a little with how I'd color a robot, however still very similar to the actual robot.

- Andrew

Andrew Remmers

13-06-2012, 23:36

So as I said I did some more renders today.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/101718392754230534136/albums/5753730201075972225

Follow this link to view them all! :)

Enjoy

- Andrew

P.S. Didn't realize those pictures were still attached... Oh well!

n1ckd2012

18-06-2012, 00:55

Apologies for not posting new challenges last friday. I was chillin at the Ozark Mountain Brawl =). Check back next friday.

Edit: Sweet renders!

msimon785

18-06-2012, 02:27

Took me a while to get to this, but here are my renderings.
All done in Autodesk Inventor 2013 with Inventor Studio.

Inventor's renderings aren't wonderful, but I'm happy with how they turned out.

n1ckd2012

22-06-2012, 23:49

New CAD and Programming challenges have been posted. Link in the original post.

akoscielski3

23-06-2012, 00:48

I just spent about half an hour making the transmission. I tried video taping the whole thing.... It only captured 9 minutes of it... :confused: :eek:

I will try a video tape the rendering also, but for now i will just upload the transmission CADing Video. (well tomorrow i'll try to)

akoscielski3

23-06-2012, 11:43

Here is my Render :D

I'll upload the video later.

EDIT: here is my video. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DyOvw-AbCWY) Sorry its so short...

n1ckd2012

23-06-2012, 14:41

Here is my Render :D

I really like that render

akoscielski3

23-06-2012, 23:20

bam-bam

28-06-2012, 12:40

My overly late render. This is my first render ever actually.

http://i.imgur.com/bNFWF.jpg?1

Madison

28-06-2012, 13:39

Here is my FULL Video of me creating the transmission. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD1EqAX4CMI&feature=youtu.be)

The one in the video is a 3 stage while the one I rendered is only 2 stage. So Yes I made two different transmission.

Enjoy!

A bit of unsolicited advice:

Use hole wizard! It makes everything better and captures design intent more clearly.

akoscielski3

28-06-2012, 14:00

A bit of unsolicited advice:

Use hole wizard! It makes everything better and captures design intent more clearly.

I've used it in the past, but I don't like it. I may try it again but I've always found making the circles myself quicker.

Andrew Remmers

28-06-2012, 14:42

I've used it in the past, but I don't like it. I may try it again but I've always found making the circles myself quicker.

I have found this much faster as well, however I have seen hole wizard's uses really well at work and have started using it some more because in drawings it automatically has all the hole properties.

- Andrew