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Re: 4" Wooden Mecanum Wheel

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post
How did you determine the contour for the rollers?
I found the cross section of two ellipses of vertical radius equal to the radius of the wheel and a horizontal radius of the wheel radius * sqrt(2). The ones in the vex picture were just estimated, I believe.
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