Are you considering OnShape (profesional cloud based CAD)?

[richtop]

Hi jmsmith,

I see there are FRC models in onshape from Davin Keeney, Eric Link, Justin Foss, and Aaron Dengler, but I do not know how to get a hold of them in onshape. I created an onshape team called "FIRST FRC Robotics" and added a "FRC Robot Start template" it has the wide chassis and some other parts from Andymark and Vex and some pullys.

My thought is that if we can get some of the Vex and Andymark CAD organized in an onshape document then we can use "derived part" to search for what we need. For example entering "bearing", and up would pop the preview of the CAD for a number of bearings and we would pick the one we need. We should put mates on the bearing then it would be fast to use "translate by mate" to locate the bearing on the robot, and we could then quickly see for example if there is enough room for what we had planned etc.

By having the parts in an onshape document the document can become an easy to access standard set of FRC parts and it would save us the time of having to find the CAD, downloading it, uploading it in Onshape, giving it a descriptive name and adding mates. It might even make it easier to find a part that would work from some other vendors besides Vex and Andymark (for example see the pully in the document, I believe I noted the website I found it at).

Those are my thought after having played around with onshape working on a 2014 concept robot.

Rich

PS: I don't know of a way for you to make a request to join the "FIRST FRC Robotics" team so for now if anybody wants to join the "FIRST FRC Robotics" team in onshape I guess contact us at: Laker Robotics 5053 at gmail (all one word) and we will invite you.