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Originally Posted by Madison
Out of curiosity, approximately how many sheet metal parts do y'all have on a finished robot?
This season is the first that we're designing a majority of parts for manufacture by our sheet metal sponsor and the quantity has been overwhelming. Our sponsor has been very gracious and awesome, but I am not sure if they were expecting to get 100+ parts. We certainly weren't expecting to send that many.
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As another sheet metal team, we have sent ~40 unique parts to our sponsors. One of the tricks I have learned over the years is to try do more than one thing with each bracket looking at it from a systems level. We try to use the same bracket for a few different things, like shaft supports and retainers. We also have a few reverse bend parts, so the nesting count is lower. Every sheet metal place will make a few extras so they can tune in the breaking and if you have reverse bend parts it minimizes the excess. Additionally we ask for 3 sets of everything (comp robot, practice bot and spares), but yes it is still quite a bit of metal and the turn around time is always a challenge.