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Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor
Inventor 11's stress analysis tells me that it can take about 900 pounds of sideload as a whole, which just might be enough for a FIRST bot.
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This quote scares me a bit. I just want to warn you and everyone else about integrated FEA in software, especially inventor. FEA is good when you have an idea about how strong something is and you just want a verification. ie. you have already calculated an approximation using a number of other methods, or you are familiar with your mechanical properties of the materials and their metal working abilities. IT is
NOT OK just to click a couple buttons and assume that the number that it gives you is what you are going to get. First of all nothing that is build comes out exactly like the cad model, no matter how good your machining abilities are. Next there are a number of mistakes that can exist in a cad model from small keystroke errors or incorrect constraints.
I am not trying to come down on you i am just trying to warn people that if you blindly trust a number that the computer gives you without understanding what it is calculating you have the possibility of large errors, which could be catastrophic in your machine.