pic: Team 1156 - Our Inventor robot

[Daniel Brim]

Impressive. I especially like the battery strap and the chains (how did you do them?). Where did you get the breaker panel? Why is the battery that high?

-Daniel

[Greg McCoy]

Nicely done.

Out of curiosity, how big (file size) is the whole thing? With such a well-detailed full robot, do you have trouble working with the whole assembly at once? How much RAM do you have?

I'm impressed

[Daniel_H]

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

Impressive. I especially like the battery strap and the chains (how did you do them?). Where did you get the breaker panel? Why is the battery that high?

-Daniel

I made Sketches of the chains only to measure their length, then i constrained it to look like real chains anyway =P, our PCs couldn't handle real chains. I got the breaker panel from a guy that offered it in the CAD sub-forum. the battery is there because we couldn't get any better place for it, but it's safe

Out of curiosity, how big (file size) is the whole thing? With such a well-detailed full robot, do you have trouble working with the whole assembly at once? How much RAM do you have?

arround 200Mb, but I'll try to make it small to send it for the award so it wont take so much time to upload it -_-. It is really slow to work with the whole thing at once, at school we have 512 Mb of RAM.

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by Daniel Repio

I made Sketches of the chains only to measure their length, then i constrained it to look like real chains anyway =P, our PCs couldn't handle real chains. I got the breaker panel from a guy that offered it in the CAD sub-forum. the battery is there because we couldn't get any better place for it, but it's safe

So then is the chain mobile? How did you do the battery strap? BTW: Awesome attention to detal

-Daniel

[Daniel_H]

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

So then is the chain mobile? How did you do the battery strap? BTW: Awesome attention to detal

-Daniel

the chain is a sketch (2d plane) constrained to the 3d parts, if that part of the arm moved it would move too, but it doesn't need to.
The strap: I made one side of it using the line tool and offset tool. the buckle (if you can call so, not that good English =) I did by measuring a bag pack one and drawing on inventor

Thanks for the compliments

[jdiwnab]

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

Where did you get the breaker panel?
-Daniel

Originally Posted by Daniel Repio

I got the breaker panel from a guy that offered it in the CAD sub-forum.

That would be me (again). For some reason, no one but me and the people I give it to have the panel. Maybe I am missing something, but I think there would have been an official versions of it. Maybe I should put this in the white papers. If you want is and it isn't in the white papers, email me at jdiwnab at gmail dot com. (for those that saw my other post where I first offered this, don't email me at the henricoschools account, I don't check it much. )

I will say now that the panel lacks the serial port and the 40A grounds and the main posts. I got the hard part done though. And because I don't feel like finishing the panel myself, send be back a copy if you add those things.

<edit> If I were to post it in the white papers, where would I put it? I don't see anything else like it. </edit>

[Greg McCoy]

I would put it into a ZIP file and upload it to the Technical section of the white papers. Also, perhaps you could contact Ed Sparks, the man behind the FIRST CAD Library. He might be willing to host it.

Several people were looking for an Inventor model of the new breaker panel, but this is the first one I've actually seen...good job.

[Daniel_H]

Originally Posted by jdiwnab

That would be me (again). For some reason, no one but me and the people I give it to have the panel. Maybe I am missing something, but I think there would have been an official versions of it. Maybe I should put this in the white papers. If you want is and it isn't in the white papers, email me at jdiwnab at gmail dot com. (for those that saw my other post where I first offered this, don't email me at the henricoschools account, I don't check it much. )

I will say now that the panel lacks the serial port and the 40A grounds and the main posts. I got the hard part done though. And because I don't feel like finishing the panel myself, send be back a copy if you add those things.

<edit> If I were to post it in the white papers, where would I put it? I don't see anything else like it. </edit>

oh, sorry, how could I forget?
thanks again for the breaker, it was very helpful

[Daniel_H]

sorry for double posting

Here is a closer look of the battery strap, since you got so interested on it =D
if you need a copy, e-mail me at zzdanielzz@terra.com.br