Swerve Drive CAD

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Originally Posted by Jared

I agree, it would be easier to change out the steering motor if it was upside down.

As for the belts, I had originally left out the gears and I had a 4 to 1 reduction with belts. The problem was that I couldn't make a layout using pulleys and belts from sdp/si or mcmaster that had enough wrap around all the pulleys.

Do you know what type of belts FRC teams usually use? I looked at the GT2 series from gates, but I couldn't find any info on the lengths that actually exist or where you could order from.

I think that I could probably get away with chains in this case because they are pretty short and probably won't stretch that much.

I generally use HTD 5mm belts, which seem to be pretty standard; you can buy them from B&B Manufacturing (http://www.bbman.com), or alternatively just use their very nice catalog for designing purposes and see if you can buy the parts from a cheaper supplier once you have all the part numbers.