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Originally Posted by Tom Line
*snip* I would tend to disagree. Full mechanical designs for swerves (or the pictures to allow you to easily reverse engineer them) have been around for years. I believe 217 posted a cutaway of their serve from 5 or more years ago. Those teams are more than willing to lend help to anyone who needs it as well.
However, you still see a lot of teams who have already DONE swerve not using them going forward. Nearly every big name team has done swerve several times, yet most do not pick it as their drivetrain of choice. *snip*
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Even though full designs for swerves had been posted for years, most teams lacked the resources to build one. The same thing was true for Mecanum wheels until 2007. There were a few teams who made their own in 2005 and 2006 and posted designs and research on them, but most teams lacked the ability to make the wheels and chassis. Then, in 2007 AM came out with their own line of Mecanum wheels and a huge number of teams began using them. I think the same thing will happen with Swerve Drives in the next few years with the introduction of the Team 221 Swerve Modules.