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

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

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.

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

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

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

Creo render with Perspective View.

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

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.

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

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

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

So as I said I did some more renders today.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/1...30201075972225

Follow this link to view them all! :)

Enjoy

- Andrew

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

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

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

Edit: Sweet renders!

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

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.

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

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

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

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)

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

Here is my Render :D

I'll upload the video later.

EDIT: here is my video. Sorry its so short...

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

I really like that render

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

Here is my FULL Video of me creating the transmission.

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!

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

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


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

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

A bit of unsolicited advice:

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

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

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.

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

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

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

New challenges posted. Theme is "drivetrain". Link in OP.