Rigorous, scientific pocketing?

[Kevin Leonard]

Originally Posted by Chris is me

Honestly, build season is so quick and I'm so busy that I'd rather just over-build the mechanism a little bit and go conservative with the pocketing than do rigorous analysis to optimize the part for weight. The few extra ounces this saves is rarely worth the design time. If you have a general understanding of trusses, how your mechanism is loaded, etc. and you are conservative with your pocketing you should be okay.

It's very easy to misuse FEA tools to give you a false sense of confidence, so I would be careful with them.

Chris would know, he's broken more robots than many of us have built.