What is the distance from the center driver station wall to the center peg wall?
The CAD they supply at kickoff is the best way to measure things accurately if you ever need to. We use it alot during the season, in this case, that measurement is: 113.89in
https://gyazo.com/a0bf826a952696c1b913294fa0114459
I use the Solidworks CAD but im pretty sure they have a STEP file also, not 100% sure if you can measure a STEP file though
It is definitely possible to measure a STEP file, but you still need a compatible CAD package to do so. Autodesk offers a student version of Inventor for free, and it’s not very hard to get a Solidworks sponsorship for your team. If you’re on a Mac/Linux machine, Onshape is a recent entry into the CAD industry that works quite well and is fully cloud-based.
Two comments: The official field assembly drawings on page 3 indicate that the dimension is 114.3".
The second thing:
I think that finding the exact dimensions is great and is a really good starting point. But, keep in mind that no two fields will be identical & fields will shift over the course of an event. My point is that I wouldn’t count on that particular dimension (or most dimensions, to be honest) to be EXACTLY 114.3". You can probably count on it being +/- 1" in most cases.
Individual tolerances can be up to +/- 1". Tolerance stack-up can mean some parts are 5+" off the mark and still within tolerance. (Talking in general here, not for this particular dimension)
One of the corollaries to Murphy’s Law is that the more important something is, the more likely it is to fail. So if your robot relies strictly on a certain distance, that distance is very important to you, so it’s likely not to be where you want it, so you best be able to adapt to that changing substantially. I usually try to get +/- 5" of leeway where my auto routines still work, but I would at least plan for +/- 2".
Does there happen to be a simplified model? The CAD is really slow on my computer and it takes forever to get measurements.