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Originally Posted by dodar
Ok, me and a teammate are discussing the 60" rule and we were wondering if you measure from the center of your robot and the center of the cylinder to anything extending out past your robot or from one end of the robot to the other end of whatever is extending out?
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A note regarding this discussion: The way this rule is written in the 2011 manual makes it substantially different than the similar 2008 rule. In 2008 the cylinder was the example, in 2011 the cylinder is the definition of the rule.
As an answer to your question, my reading is that your robot must fit inside a 60" diameter right cylindrical volume while playing the game. Meaning if you had such a cylinder you should be able to place it over your robot without deforming any robot parts.
Your second definition is closer than the first, but still not accurate. An equilateral triangle with 60" edges laid flat on the ground would pass your second definition, but would not fit inside the cylinder.