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Re: pic: I was bored... so I designed this.

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Originally Posted by MICHAELABICK View Post
Amazing design and nice render. Also, the cantilevered wheel is so that the drivetrain can perform like wcd and swerve.
Careful ... WCD takes advantage of cantilevered design by pushing the wheels out as wide as possible; it's so far that it's not possible to put pieces of the frame outside of the wheel base unless the frame is above the top of the wheels. Doing so greatly aids in stability and turning. By design, setting the wheel base width as wide as the frame is not possible with coaxial swerve. Thus, the only benefit of this design is easy swap of the wheels (and potentially reduced manufacturing time) -- which, IMO, doesn't outweigh the benefits of a boxed swerve module.

Very sweet render nonetheless.
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