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Re: pic: More fooling around with mecanum wheels

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Originally Posted by Ether View Post

Hi Tom,

I'm interested in the rollers.

Could you post a spreadsheet (or a text file) of the roller contour profile (roller radius vs position along roller axis). Thanks.


I generated the profile in CAD. I took a 3" diameter circle and projected it onto a plane tipped at 45 degrees. Then I played with the roller center line to get a roller size that fit nicely. I set the width of the roller so that the end of one roller was in line with the start of the next roller.
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