Tips on loosing weight (Not spam)

11-12-2011, 23:45

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Re: Tips on loosing weight (Not spam)

Design everything ahead of time in CAD. If you set the materials appropriately, you can get an accurate estimate of your final robot weight. The more detail stuff you model, the more accurate the weight estimate will be. Changing designs in CAD to reduce weight is much easier, cheaper, and more effective than having to drill hundreds (potentially thousands) of holes in your mechanisms after they're already assembled.

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