14-03-2013, 11:28
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#StickToTheStratisQuo
AKA: Gregor Browning
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Team Role: College Student
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Rookie Year: 2012
Location: Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Posts: 2,447
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Re: How is 54" size limit being inspected?
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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis
At Lake Superior, there were only a couple robots that warranted measuring - the others were all clearly within the limit. All but one of those measured didn't need any further looking, they clearly had more than an inch to spare with just some quick "napkin math". The other however was close enough that I felt the need to go further... I did a quick (less than 10 mins) CAD mockup with all the inportant critical dimensions to check it out.
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I'm just trying to get in an inspector's head, but if a team provided you with a CAD printout, would you have done your quick CAD anyway?
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