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Re: Unibody/Monocoque Construction

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Originally Posted by AdamHeard View Post
The page is pretty impressive and well done for a student.

Just curious, since then have you moved on to designing the parts with the sheet metal features of inventor, or do you still make a 2d sketch and then transfer to plywood? Or was the plywood just a medium to transfer the unfolded sheet metal pattern to sheet metal?
2005 and 2006 robot are all 2D 1:1 scale plots transferred to plywood, then sheet metal.

2007 robot was drawn in 3D for the first time. I can't remember if they plotted and used the 3D drawings from inventor or not. One of the students was showing me the sheet metal tool in inventor (me personally I don't have a clue how to use the software), and acutally I think it was a student from team 1720 that was showing me ;-)

2007 was different in a way that it was alot of tubing, the same tubing they use in the landing gear on the airplane. Chromoly tubing, then the wings are sheet metal with rib spars. So it was a bit different than the 2005 and 2006 robot but still based on airplane parts. ;-)
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