Some basic Pneumatic Design Questions

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Hello Everyone,

My team has recently started exploring in pnematics and we have some basic questions:

1) How do we determine how many tanks we will need if we don't want to carry a compressor? I know we can calculate how much air the system will use depending on how many times we fire, but is it that simple?

2) When CADing, how do you go about working in the cylinders into your design? Are there specific models? Do you just take the stroke of the cylinder and adhere all designs to that?

Thanks,
- Sunny G.