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Originally Posted by faust1706
I'm a programmer, but I'm willing to bet money on if you design something for industry, you have to extensively stress test it in software before implementation is ever thought of. It's kind of like with code, only it's called unit testing then. Bill Gates got so much free programming time because someone who wrote the login info to computers back then they didn't unit test their code. When prompted to put time, he simply put a letter, and the software couldn't make sense of it so he got to use the computer for free.
NASA wouldn't have gotten to where they are today if it weren't for extensive stress testing, in software and in the lab.
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This isn't NASA, where robots must work in outer space for decades without maintenance. We also don't have unlimited budgets and time.
Ask any great team (1114, 254, 118, 111...) if they've done "stress analysis" on every single part in their robot. I'd be willing to be that they've only done this sort of work for maybe one or two parts on their robot.
From a mechanical point of view, this is not a simple analysis to conduct, nor would the results be very useful.
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And if you really don't want to do it, I'm sure there exists some program online that allows you to upload a cad file (I don't even know what extension they have....) and it will do it for you, or you could figure out how to do it in whatever software you designed it in.
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If you're so sure, please send me a link to this program. If a solution that lets you throw in a CAD file and tells you where weak points exist, then thousands of people would be out of jobs.