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Re: pic: 2015 Off-season Single Speed Coaxial Swerve Chassis

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Originally Posted by Kevin Ainsworth View Post
I am guessing it is because we had Nick setup our Versaplanetary gearbox in Solidworks with "Configurations" and he picked a different configuration.

To discuss configurations a little more. When designing the robot we can insert a Vex Versaplanetary gearbox into Solidworks and change it to any possible configuration. This is a tab that allows you to reconfigure an assembly automatically, once you've spent the time adding in all possible parts. You can hide ,surpress, change items in the assembly so that it "reconfigures" the assembly. We currently can change between single and double stage reduction. We can change between the Bag motor, RS550 and RS775 motors. We can change the output shaft options between the .375" hex, .500" hex, .500" round, and 8mm keyed CIM shaft. We can also change to a dual motor option. This all occurs with a click of a button on the same gearbox assembly. So there is no deleting and reinserting a new custom setup. There is no creating a custom assembly each time we need to insert a VersaPlaentary gearbox into the robot design. We should create a video sometime to show how to do this for the First community.
Are you guys willing to share your configurable VersaPlanetary assembly? If you're OK with it, I'd love to add it to the parts library I've been working on for my team and the FRC community.
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