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Re: How much does your robot weigh?

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Originally Posted by farmersvilleRob View Post
We are looking at around 70-80 completely finished with no reduction techniques. and a note to everyone using autodesk- it does have CAD weight issues that can be as high as 20-30 lbs off. Solidworks is around 1-2 lbs off. But in autodesk try to manually enter each parts' weight for a better estimate
Is that 20-30 lbs over or under? Because we designed an overweight robot in CAD, and then gave up on trying to adjust the design and said, we'll just build it and then swiss cheese it. But it Autodesk overestimates by 20 pounds, then we have a hundred-ten pound robot.
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