[thefro526]

Originally Posted by martin417

Everyone keeps focusing on the sizing box. This question has nothing to do with the max legal size for NORMAL VOLUME. Only with bumper perimeter. The sketch below is of a 12" square bot, which could never have issues with the sizing box. However, as the rules currently read, is not legal. Since we have not yet recieved an answer, the only alternative is to desigh the bot so that this does not occur. If this is truly illegal, I would expect a great deal of trouble for some teams at inspection this yer.

I read through the discussion here and we ran into the same problem last night which resulted in us narrowing our chassis by about .5".

Now that I've thought about it more, I think that there should be some sort of concession made for bolt heads extending outside of the frame perimeter, but within the maximum sizing volume. I know the last two robots we've built on the C-base had bolt heads extending outside of the frame perimeter and I'd assume most teams using it this year would have the same issues...

Hmm.