CAD Drive Design Challenge

[Pavan Dave]

Originally Posted by 114ManualLabor

Alrighty, here's my really immensely crappy drive base. I sort of forgot about this thing until like an hour ago, and I have to leave in 20 minutes.... So here it is!

The good news is that it will drive.

One thing to note: there's no tensioning on the chain, as I spent way too much time doing the math provided in a Martin Sprocket catalog on calculating the right distance in between sprockets to not need tensioning. Not sure how it would work on a real bot, but in concept it seems to be pretty nice.

Do you know how to constrain gears in ADI? :$

Yeah, they come auto-constrained when you make them in pairs in Design Accelerator. If not, then take the work planes and constrain them together.

If they don't exist yet, you'll have to make them at the correct distances in order to let the gear mesh correctly.