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This makes it all click. Very nice design (and render)

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Everytime I see a new swerve drive design on CD I just wanna build one even more so...


One of these days...

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There's your problem. Use JPG, not PNG, for renders.

I cropped the 45MegaByte PNG pic and converted to JPG and reduced the filesize by a factor of 200 with no perceptible loss of quality.

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Yep. They are quite complicated, but pay off in the end, especially if you can get them light enough. By the way, Great design.

Now, for me:
Design and build a swerve drive vex robot to take to competitions! I'd like to see how that would work out ;)

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I think it'd be helpful to see an exploded view of one of the modules so that it's clearer how they're designed and assembled. Any chance of that happening?

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I can work on one yes, no guarantees on the time it'll take to get to it though.

Who's to say I haven't already done so? ;)

No, no, in actuality The amount of motor resources I'd like to dedicate to drive is far from optimal so as far as the rules remain the way they are I will not be building a swerve in VEX.

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Ya. That would indeed be a bad idea, especially after I just finished a holonomic chassis that requires 4 motor ports, not 8. Also, there is a motor quota of ten, so that would be 4/5ths of my quota!

I'd like to keep some outputs for my cool scanning distance sensor and it's moving mount!:D :D :D :D :D

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This is awesome, I think smaller 2.5-3.5" wheels are going to start being more "common" for FRC use. I agree an exploded view would really help to understand what all is going on in there.

Also what program did you use to make this render? It's beautiful!

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If I weren't using WiFi, I would have killed my data plan!!! That reminds me when I saved a GIMP picture as HTML and the filesize was over 250MB! Crashed my computer the first time I tried to do it!:D :D :D :D :D

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What program was this rendered with?

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SolidWorks

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I'm pretty sure this is not solidworks. Andrew uses inventor so this being solidworks would make no sense. I am pretty sure this is 3ds max

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This was rendered in 3ds Max by my friend and animator Cody Smith. I am slowly learning how to do something like this, but he is far more knowledgeable in this regard. Plus I am helping keeping his house warm since there are 5 (I think) i7s that crunch all the data for one render, and its 30 degrees in Colorado currently.

I also only have one i7 processor at my disposal instead of an entire render farm so it would take me a couple days to actually pull something off like this.

- Andrew

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Maybe I'm missing something. VEX offers a swerve drive kit; one could easily be built with 5 or 6 motors.