This year Stratasys is donating 150 printed scaled fields to FIRST Choice Round 2 and you are able to print your own field with our 3D printable designs located on GrabCAD.
Please let me know if there are any questions or requests for different file types, happy to help teams out with slicing questions as well.
Let me start by saying thank you for putting the model on GrabCAD. However…(there’s always an however coming)…
In the past, AutomationDirect (at least I believed that’s the vendor) uses a standard scaling so that the perimeters can be reuse and we would only need to swap out the major changed parts. Which is great because it’ll save time to not have to reprint everything…
But I understands with changes to vendor, things will change. But…I’m not sure how to go about this without spending quite a bit of time and effort to solve this problem with scale and/or cutting up the model because right now, that wall.stl would span over 30" (3x Bambu’s Build Plate).
I think trying to rescale everything so they can be reuse/fit with the old model would be way too much to ask for but perhaps just pre cut these so they would fit on common print bed size? (say something like 200mm x 200mm like an Ender3 or higher?
Thanks again.
Thanks, tkchan! This is a great suggestion, I know we had some discussions last year with other professional organizations about creating a “maker” version in addition to the Stratasys version but it doesn’t look like that materialized. I will work with our team to produce a single panel version of the field walls - this should accommodate everyone.
I would also like to build a multi-part assembly version of the charging station but it might be a few weeks before I have the time to re-design that… I have an Ender 3 Pro at home I’ll test it out on when complete. Happy to post/endorse any others that come up with a different design as well.
I wanted something that was more amenable to FDM, and which had functional elements and reusuabilty, so I designed my own version, exhibited at CASD last week. It took me a lot longer to design and print than I anticipated. Hopefully I’ll be faster next year.
The functional elements include working double-hinge charge station, single substation with hinged door, double substation with sliding shelves, and magnets everywhere. The magnets keep the pieces in place without being glued, and also allow the grid, robots, and double-substation shelves to hold game pieces, and let robots stay on the charge station.
Because it’s based on magnets, we’ll hopefully be able to reuse some elements of it on future kickoff days.
For continuity, here is another 3-D printed field:
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