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Originally Posted by TRWSHSHLX
How're you going to color the parts? Since all the parts are chrome... 
On a different topic, do you actually cad the chains when you cad the robot? I didn't try to do that but I'm always curious how. I didn't recall any teams from World's that used PTC had actual chains on their models...
The only models that I had saw with chains on it for VEX / FTC are the ones that were cad by cody (smartkid)...
Oh and how do you make the gear on the motor mounted on the motor shaft mesh with the other gears? |
I know Cody he is on my team (if you couldn't tell already) I'm the one who convinced him to CAD every link if your talking about what I think you are.
Since FTC actually uses chain that is used in the industry there is a calculation tool in Inventor that does the chain routing for you given you have the right placements and calculations it will make a virtual run of the chain normally a blue representation like in this picture
This is my teams planned FTC bot this year. We never built it but I can answer questions about that as well
P.S. I taught a student how to CAD with this robot, He is graduating this year and I'm pretty proud of him. I only wish we got to see this robot perform as we had a different version built for states and were hoping to build this for Worlds if we got in, However we did not.
In relation to making gears mesh I just rotate the motor until its at pretty much the right spot for the model, If it doesn't work I would redesign.
- Andrew