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Originally Posted by Tom Line
Sheet metal chassis like look HUGE, but in reality are a lot of empty space. I've really appreciated the look of the 217 / 148 / 1114 robots the last couple of years - they simply look physically imposing because of the lack of open space: they look massive.
One question though on this type of constructive. I imagine one of the trickiest parts of making a sheet-metal frame of this sort is doing the force modeling to understand where you can and cannot remove material.
How are you going about that?
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The entire pattern on this was done incorrectly and very hastily, I did not look at the loads that well. I am redoing the pocketing right now. Obviously I made all mounting holes like JVN said and then carefully pocketed leaving .75" in between everything in the second iteration. Mostly I've been studying the CAD from 148's 07-09 bots along with a few others and just working off of that.
I also redid the assembly to make it monocoque. I'll post it up later tonight.
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It's the corollary that you pick them no matter what shape they start the event in. Pink is known for showing up at their 1st regional with the robot in an unfinished state. And somehow, magically by the end of qualifications it just works, and they win. - Nuttyman54 [more] 
01-05-2010, 20:24
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