973 Remote Assistance and Mentorship Program (RAMP)

[Nemo]

Originally Posted by AdamHeard

Another video on Cascade elevators is up, specifically using chain to drive the first stage.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJrSk...ature=youtu.be

That was easier and better than the way I came up with in my pre-season playing around with your elevator design. Thanks for posting. One of these years we're gonna build one of these bearing supported elevators.

[Answer42]

Does 973 have a way of keeping cad files for the robot up to date with multiple people working on them? I've seen a lot of teams struggle with this and I was wondering if you had any tricks.

[RKSolid]

Hi 973,

I currently an employee at SolidWorks and I wanted to let you know that the software you receive from our free sponsorship comes with a data management software. This program is called Workgroup PDM. It works across a network and allows users the ability to check in and check out different files as well as set permissions on different files for different users. For more information see below.


FAQ: http://help.solidworks.com/2013/Engl...nistrators.htm
Installation: http://www.solidworks.com/sw/educati...nd-support.htm
Tutorials: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQ14JJDSSs

~Ryan

[cxcad]

What about a video on integrating CAD design and the build process. I know a lot of teams struggle with this and so does mine... A video on dividing CAD work would be nice too

[DampRobot]

A lot of people don't know that scouting is really an integral part of the secret sauce that makes 973 so awesome. Could you do a video where you talk about what qualitative things you look for when scouting, and how you make your pick lists?

[rcmolloy]

Originally Posted by DampRobot

A lot of people don't know that scouting is really an integral part of the secret sauce that makes 973 so awesome. Could you do a video where you talk about what qualitative things you look for when scouting, and how you make your pick lists?

I was planning on having a discussion with Adam on this topic and see what exactly we could do to educate everyone about our scouting procedures. I think the post should spark his interest. It already reminded me that I wanted to make a video related to scouting.

[lukedude43]

Hey, you said the mirror sizing for arms and elevators videos were up, I may just be completely blind but I can't find them

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by lukedude43

Hey, you said the mirror sizing for arms and elevators videos were up, I may just be completely blind but I can't find them

Here you go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TbRbSmwVbo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cRS7TF2KM8

[lukedude43]

Thanks, apparently I'm blind and proofreading challenged

[cxcad]

Woah, I never noticed that there are more videos than those found on the website.

[Adam.garcia]

Hello,

First of all, I love these videos. I'm going to show it to our kids. They'll really benefit from them, as I have learned quite a few things myself.

In your designing with sketches video, you mentioned that you created a top-down designed Elevator system in the past, where changing a couple numbers would repopulate the entire assembly. I think it'd be a good learning resource for myself, as well as others.

Thanks,
Adam

[AdamHeard]

New video posted on a COTS single joint (and potentially double joint) arm design.

More videos coming soon!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1bL...ature=youtu.be

[Jim Wilks]

Well done!

[JesseK]

Adam, I just watched these again. I didn't actually watch more than the WCD stuff last December since I wasn't overly involved with overall design. This is Grade A stuff. Attached is how the design sketches worked in 2012 for ball flow through the robot for us (this wasn't our production design).

Since I'm going to CAD quite a bit more this season, it was a good brush up on a lot of the tricks and techniques I'd forgotten since I haven't CAD'ed FRC in 20 months (ha).

A word of caution about mirroring across or centering on a 'top' plane - some 3D printing STL > gcode programs, like Slic3r, cannot handle that and will slice off the bottom half of the part.

[AdamHeard]

Originally Posted by JesseK

Adam, I just watched these again. I didn't actually watch more than the WCD stuff last December since I wasn't overly involved with overall design. This is Grade A stuff. Attached is how the design sketches worked in 2012 for ball flow through the robot for us (this wasn't our production design).

Since I'm going to CAD quite a bit more this season, it was a good brush up on a lot of the tricks and techniques I'd forgotten since I haven't CAD'ed FRC in 20 months (ha).

A word of caution about mirroring across or centering on a 'top' plane - some 3D printing STL > gcode programs, like Slic3r, cannot handle that and will slice off the bottom half of the part.

If we want to move the origin before export we do a body move in SW to allign as desired. I prefer this to giving up symmetry.

Thanks for the warning though. Its certainly important to consider the whole process (CAD to CAM when you're using it).