pic: Micro Swerve Module Drive Train

[yash101]

SolidWorks

[MichaelBick]

I'm pretty sure this is not solidworks. Andrew uses inventor so this being solidworks would make no sense. I am pretty sure this is 3ds max

[Andrew Remmers]

This was rendered in 3ds Max by my friend and animator Cody Smith. I am slowly learning how to do something like this, but he is far more knowledgeable in this regard. Plus I am helping keeping his house warm since there are 5 (I think) i7s that crunch all the data for one render, and its 30 degrees in Colorado currently.

I also only have one i7 processor at my disposal instead of an entire render farm so it would take me a couple days to actually pull something off like this.

- Andrew

[Taylor]

Maybe I'm missing something. VEX offers a swerve drive kit; one could easily be built with 5 or 6 motors.

[micro]

This is incredibly well done. I hope you put the CAD up so others can see what you did. I'm trying to teach the new freshman to Cad and this is the perfect example of what I hope they can do someday.

[Andrew Remmers]

Originally Posted by Taylor

Maybe I'm missing something. VEX offers a swerve drive kit; one could easily be built with 5 or 6 motors.

Yes I am aware of this fact but the level of dexterity and flexibility required by NARs robot designs needs something far more space efficient. We have yet to find a decent acceptable way of doing a swerve without adding lots of interestingly complex mechanisms to allow us to get the same performance out of a swerve compared to one of our x holo drives or tank drives.

I've been wanting to build a vex swerve for a while and I'm sure it will be done eventually just so far we haven't been happy with our solutions to the problem yet.

[Taylor]

Sorry, my comment wasn't meant toward the OP. It was directed toward the people who were asking about swerve use in VRC.

[Brandon Zalinsky]

Any idea what the weight would look like for this?