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Originally Posted by Cory
Well you wouldn't be able to make a gearbox plate to pocket, without a mill, so this is kind of an apples and oranges comparison.
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More like cherries and pumpkins, but it's good that you understand that the situation is so different as to defy reasonable comparison.
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Originally Posted by Cory
Unless you only make plates with right angles you're going to have material outside the bounding box of the part. It's a very loaded statement to say "if all goes well, you have no material outside the bounding box". Maybe that's true if your team's goal is to never make a non orthogonal part. That is not the case for many teams in FRC.
You also may consider it semantics, but "contouring" is absolutely different than pocketing and contouring is not under discussion here. Furthermore, teams can and do just bandsaw/belt sand the outer contour of their gearbox to reduce weight or provide clearance for other features of the robot.
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You completely lost me on both of these points. Please elaborate.
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Originally Posted by Cory
Yes, material inside the bounding box of the part that you pocket out is thrown out...but MrForbes is making it sound like it's "extra" material that you didn't have to buy and you could have purchased a smaller piece and saved money. It's metal you already bought. It's metal that cannot be used for anything else. His statement makes absolutely no sense in that context.
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As I read it, MrForbes' point is that you could have bought thinner material originally, and yes, saved money. The money for thicker stock would never have been spent, and this makes perfect sense in my context.
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Originally Posted by Cory
Your last point is seemingly irrelevant...unless you're suggesting that you think 254 might be violating the rules. We are well aware of how the BOM works.
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If you were referring to:
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Originally Posted by GeeTwo
I certainly hope you don't discount the material originally in the pockets from your BoM; that would have violated the last several years of rules!
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I certainly did not mean to imply that you were violating the rules, but rather to express confidence that you were not violating the rules.