pic: Team 1325 Sheetmetal Chassis 2012

[akoscielski3]

Originally Posted by Feroz1325

Thanks for all your comments....to answer some of the questions:
First of all i hope to use riveting to secure the frame members, however some people on my team prefer bolts, we shall see who wins .
For the bend radius...im actually not sure, i used the presets in Autodesk Inventor and i believe it is 0.09 inches?
At school we have a sheetmetal brake, so I was wondering if it would be okay to get the parts CNC'd and then bend it on our brake? This would save us a lot of time as it wouldn't need to be shipped out to a sheetmetal shop. Any thoughts?
Also, yes we will be adding a plywood baseplate and another cross member.

Please make sure your sheet metal break is big enough to hold a piece and bend it. We almost did that for our prototype, our break wasn't bug enough to bend the metal. Instead we got it bent at our sponsors place.

See you in Toronto!