pic: GUS Team 228's 2011 SolidWorks Render

[Akash Rastogi]

Such an awesome work of Art.

But you already know I love the bot from FB.

Is the gripper a single piece?

[artdutra04]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

Is the gripper a single piece?

The render doesn't show the gap between the two pieces:

[Alpha Beta]

Gorgeous render. The copious number of pictures of your 2007 robot served as an inspiration for us this season. If you saw a spike in band-width, that was us.

[dag0620]

Great Rendering Art!

Also that looks like a fantastic robot! I hope everything ended up working alright!

I can't wait to go see it in action when me and some of the guys head up to WPI!

[Navid Shafa]

That is beautiful, I can't really speak to the whole Inventor vs. Solidworks battle much. However, I can say that the renders often look more realistic and pretty like this one!

Does Solidworks give out free FRC student copies like Autodesk does? I would be interested in obtaining a copy and broadening my modeling spectrum if you could point me in the right direction.

Once again, nice work!

[R.C.]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

That is beautiful, I can't really speak to the whole Inventor vs. Solidworks battle much. However, I can say that the renders often look more realistic and pretty like this one!

Does Solidworks give out free FRC student copies like Autodesk does? I would be interested in obtaining a copy and broadening my modeling spectrum if you could point me in the right direction.

Once again, nice work!

Yes Solidworks does, they gave our team 33 copies this season.

Art, this is another fantastic rendering. I love the design of the entire bot. I used to look forward to Lewis's renderings, now I look forward to seeing yours.

Best of Luck!

-RC

[Navid Shafa]

Originally Posted by R.C.

Yes Solidworks does, they gave our team 33 copies this season.

Any chance you could spread the wealth JK. However, can you direct me as to how one would acquire copies for themselves/team?

[NickE]

Originally Posted by Navid Shafa

Any chance you could spread the wealth JK. However, can you direct me as to how one would acquire copies for themselves/team?

http://www.solidworks.com/sw/educati...gn-contest.htm

[R.C.]

Marie Parchland, is the Solidworks Rep for FIRST Robotics. If you PM her, she'll direct you to how you can get a free copy.

As I don't have link on me.

-RC

EDIT EDIT - Nick Beat me to it.

[Navid Shafa]

I filled out the registration information, Thanks for the help!

[artdutra04]

There's a variety of reasons we use SolidWorks, but mostly they involve several of our mentors have SolidWorks experience and one of our machine shop sponsors uses SolidWorks for all their production runs.

I don't know if we ever got any "glamor shots" of our robot before we crated 'em up (we missed a cumulative week due to snow days), but our students have [finally!] updated our website photo galleries for the 2011 season. They're still missing a lot of photos, and many still have to be tagged, but here's the link:

http://www.team228.org/media/pictures/2011

Here's the most completed whole photo of our competition robot (taken several days before ship) we currently have on our website: