Our team is creating an exhibit at the Virgina Air and Space Center about competition robotics. Currently, our 2012 and 2011 robots are on display. As the exhibit matures, we hope to get a couple other robots from area teams into the exhibit to demonstrate how different teams develop different design solutions to the same engineering problem.
We are currently removing useful components from the robots for reuse, and replacing them with facsimiles made with our 3D printer. When I printed the Jaguar model which was supplied by PTC, I found that the model is incomplete. It’s missing part of the base. I added the missing part, taking dimensions from an actual Jaguar.
Three files are available for download at Thingiverse: the Creo (ProE) file; a STEP file that can be imported into your CAD software of choice; and an STL file you can use to print your own mock Jaguars.
A print of two Jaguars, with 10% fill, took 6.75 hours last night.
Very nice! I’m glad someone finally took the time to create a more detailed model. It isn’t completely necessary, but it looks a bit better on renders, and, I’m sure, on your exhibit. Thank you for sharing!
Well, while on this topic, if enough people want more detailed models I could work on a few that are lacking the most amount of detail like the Dlink. I’m currently working on finishing this years robot in CAD including wires and connectors http://imgur.com/a/Dvw7t mostly finished except for sides to the Victors and a few other things like bolting things down. As you can see in a couple of pics I found a DB 37 cable which is not in the KOP and added some lights to the Dlink.
If you need any help with addng detail to models or anything let me know.
Once you buy the machine (admittedly pretty expensive), the cost of printed parts is almost nothing. With a cosmetic print like this one, we use 10% fill. The interior is mostly air. I suppose there is a cost to the electricity used to print the parts, but that’s trivial, too.
We’ll be replacing at least 10 Jaguars with replicas. Though the current price is $60, they were about $100 when we bought them. That’s a pretty good justification for buying a $2000 3D printer, right there. We will be replacing other things, like CRIOs, PD board, sidecars, etc.
Very nice though