Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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

Feel free to follow along here!

New tasks will be posted every friday and will be announced through our facebook, & twitter

Feedback and task ideas are welcome!

Thanks,

Nick

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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

- Andrew

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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:

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

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

Future tasks will accessible by the public.

Glad you like the program!

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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

Your mechanical challenge is interesting.

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

Sweet renders. More the merrier.

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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.

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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.....

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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.

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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.

Re: Weekly CAD, Mech, & Programming Challenges By DiscoBots 2587
 

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