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Originally Posted by Tom Line
Sheet metal chassis like look HUGE, but in reality are a lot of empty space. I've really appreciated the look of the 217 / 148 / 1114 robots the last couple of years - they simply look physically imposing because of the lack of open space: they look massive.
One question though on this type of constructive. I imagine one of the trickiest parts of making a sheet-metal frame of this sort is doing the force modeling to understand where you can and cannot remove material.
How are you going about that?
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The entire pattern on this was done incorrectly and very hastily, I did not look at the loads that well. I am redoing the pocketing right now. Obviously I made all mounting holes like JVN said and then carefully pocketed leaving .75" in between everything in the second iteration. Mostly I've been studying the CAD from 148's 07-09 bots along with a few others and just working off of that.
I also redid the assembly to make it monocoque. I'll post it up later tonight.
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