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Re: Chassis-Team 772 2011 offseason

Thanks, the PDF was better.

Alright so first things first, looks like you've got a solid overall design, now it just needs some adjustment.

Start by making the front and back plates outside of all the sideplates. This will allow you to make your driverail plates all symmetrical parts and you'll only need two unique parts for this frame (1. front and back, 2. driverails). After you make all the siderails just one part, you can sandwich them all between the front and back, unlike your current design.

Next up, you could add flanges to the bottom portions of the siderails for added strength instead of just on the top and sides.

After that, you'll want to make the mounting holes for all the parts so you can rivet/bolt however you see fit. If you're waterjetting or lasercutting, you don't neccessarily need to add filets to each of the trusses but you will definitely need filets for any pocketing surrounding bearing/mounting holes. So you might as well filet all the trusses.

Once you've got those things down post up an update. Looks like you're getting there.
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