pic: Team 2451 Pwnage

[GearsOfFury]

One thing that 2451 had at Midwest was a simulator / game that ran the swerve control on a laptop and allowed people to practice driving. I believe they even had a head to head "for fun game" set up that made practice competitive. Super cool and very nice to see the software-in-the-loop concept being taught to high school students! I wonder if they could release a hard-coded version of the game so people could try their hand at driving...!?

And I'll toot their horn a little more for them, they won the Engineering Excellence award for this design at Midwest...!

[Aren Siekmeier]

Importing the step file currently at http://www.pwnagerobotics.com/index....3-swerve-drive causes my installation of Solidworks 2013 to hang. It seems to be getting through the step solid import, but sits and spins after writing "step-in completed" to error out, which I guess is just before it puts together the assembly. Anyone have an idea what's happening? Any suggestions?

[rnewendyke]

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

Importing the step file currently at http://www.pwnagerobotics.com/index....3-swerve-drive causes my installation of Solidworks 2013 to hang. It seems to be getting through the step solid import, but sits and spins after writing "step-in completed" to error out, which I guess is just before it puts together the assembly. Anyone have an idea what's happening? Any suggestions?

I'm not entirely sure what's happening on your system, but generally when I try to open a step file larger than 40 meg I restart my computer, set the performance settings to high, set SolidWorks as high priority in the task manager, and kill all non-essential processes before attempting to open the step file in an attempt to allocate as many resources to SolidWorks as I can. I'm not sure if this will help in your situation, but it should at least give you a starting point. If you're getting an error message, try to take a screen shot of it and post it. We might be able to help you better if we can see what's going wrong.

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by rnewendyke

I'm not entirely sure what's happening on your system, but generally when I try to open a step file larger than 40 meg I restart my computer, set the performance settings to high, set SolidWorks as high priority in the task manager, and kill all non-essential processes before attempting to open the step file in an attempt to allocate as many resources to SolidWorks as I can. I'm not sure if this will help in your situation, but it should at least give you a starting point. If you're getting an error message, try to take a screen shot of it and post it. We might be able to help you better if we can see what's going wrong.

No error message, just Solidworks stops responding after a while. The step error log just says that each part was successfully imported, ending with the line "STEP-in completed."

Whenever I get around to booting Windows next I'll try upping the priority on the process. Have others had success importing this particular step file?

[rnewendyke]

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

No error message, just Solidworks stops responding after a while. The step error log just says that each part was successfully imported, ending with the line "STEP-in completed."

Whenever I get around to booting Windows next I'll try upping the priority on the process. Have others had success importing this particular step file?

I just checked one of my error logs and ours seem to match up. It usually takes a couple of tries to get larger files to load, so be prepared to give it a couple of tries.

I've gotten it to open on a machine running an i3 with 4 gb of ram at my high school that was running Inventor as well as on my laptop with an i7 and 8 gb of ram running SolidWorks.

[Aren Siekmeier]

Originally Posted by rnewendyke

I just checked one of my error logs and ours seem to match up. It usually takes a couple of tries to get larger files to load, so be prepared to give it a couple of tries.

I've gotten it to open on a machine running an i3 with 4 gb of ram at my high school that was running Inventor as well as on my laptop with an i7 and 8 gb of ram running SolidWorks.

Killing lots of NI, Google, and other stuff and upping the priority worked (with a little bit of a wait) on my i7 quad w/ 8 gig. It's been a while since I've cleaned up my Windows side...

Thanks for the tips!

[rnewendyke]

Originally Posted by compwiztobe

Killing lots of NI, Google, and other stuff and upping the priority worked (with a little bit of a wait) on my i7 quad w/ 8 gig. It's been a while since I've cleaned up my Windows side...

Thanks for the tips!

Glad to know it worked for you. Any time you open a STEP that was originally an assembly there's going to be some kind of wait. I think the longest I've ever had to wait was 20-30 minutes for one of the Robonauts' masterpieces to load.

If there's anything else you need help with please don't hesitate to ask.

[tickspe15]

Originally Posted by rnewendyke

I just checked one of my error logs and ours seem to match up. It usually takes a couple of tries to get larger files to load, so be prepared to give it a couple of tries.

I've gotten it to open on a machine running an i3 with 4 gb of ram at my high school that was running Inventor as well as on my laptop with an i7 and 8 gb of ram running SolidWorks.

The files seem to open fine on my computer.
i7 4930k @ 4.7ghz
32GB of Ram
EVGA GTX 780ti

[Roboshant]

Hey it seem the CAD link no longer works. Does anyone have a stored version or an alternate link they would be willing to share with me?

[nickrod99]

hey, i am extremely interested in your design but the lind for the cad is no longer working. could i have the files? that would be awesome. Thank you

[pwnageNick]

Sorry about this. I'm going to work on getting the file available in a google docs folder. I'll update when it's there with a link.

Until I get that set up if you go to our website here and scroll to 2014 there is a tech notes that has a lot of detail about the mechanical design and a ton of good information about how the programming was done.

[Kevin Ainsworth]

ftp://Kevin061815:Ainsworth@files.ge...utomation.com/

Try this link, it has three different swerve designs, our battery cart and a Solidworks configurable Vex Versaplanetary gearbox with single stage, double stage, choice of motors, dual motor and all available output shafts.