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Re: Beware of R16 your robot design may be too big.

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Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery View Post
If your maximum horizontal dimension is 80", you bet you fit into an 80" cylinder. Maximum horizontal dimension doesn't mean straight down the side of your robot, it means the maximum dimension of your robot parallel to the floor. That is, it's the points with the greatest distance between them parallel to the floor on your robot.
So, in your example, it would be the bisecting line of your equilateral triangle.
Uh, I'll take that bet Sean. Better sketch it out and rethink your response. Oops, I see David beat you to it.

I didn't pick up on the discrepancy in the rule StevenB, but you are correct. I just focused on the part in parentheses about fitting inside an 80 inch diameter circle thinking it was a clarification because it is more restrictive; I'll post a question on Q & A if noone else has. That makes a HUGE difference; it's the difference between the back corners being tangent to an 80 inch diameter circle as I've assumed or being the center of an 80 inch radius arc.

I just posted the question; we'll see. I'll be designing to the more restrictive requirement until I hear otherwise.
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