We’re a rookie team, and we’re looking for ideas on swerve module cover design. Though we found the attached design on the internet, we found a slight issue regarding the readiness of putting it on and off. Can anyone give us some clues on how to make this design much easier to attach and take off? Any tiny info/modification would be greatly appreciated. Regards. We use 3in MAXSwerve Module with NEO Vortex.
the design: https://grabcad.com/library/rev-3-in-swerve-cover-1
That design replaces the aluminum steering spacer, which I wouldn’t trust to hold up.
I would reccomend this design:
111 used this design for the past two years, which also optionally increases your frame perimeter by 1/4", letting you mount plates outside your frame.
2056 posted the cad for one in 2023 which was a amazing model, I cant recommend that one enough
2056’s cover is for SDS MK4is, not MAXSwerve.
Going to throw one of our students design project into chat
It is designed to slot over a stock module, you may want to use some grease or weak glue to hold the spacers in place for final assembly.
Thank you for replying! It looks so good.
Sorry but can I ask you how to take off this cover?
Thank you for recommend!
I’ll print it out with a 3D printer and I’ll try it.
You put in on when you assemble the swerve module. When you take out the three bolts keeping the module together, you can take off or put on the cover.
We (1699) made snap-on swerve covers (Mk4 and Mk4i). You might get some ideas from our designs. They simply clip onto the vertical spacers of the swerve units and were inspired by the clever design of Ajax Bachor. However, our design fully encloses the gearing of the MK4i units. Further, the covers accommodate 40mm muffin fans with snap-on filters to slightly pressurize the swerve units with clean air to keep carpet debris and other junk out, particularly out of the x-contact bearing. We have shared step files for the covers on GrabCAD [here ] and [here].
You can take a look and see how they snap on.
(https://grabcad.com/library/sds-mk4-swerve-covers-frc-team-1699-1) (https://grabcad.com/library/frc1699-sds-mk4i-swerve-covers-1)
Here is what they look like when mounted:
Just curious, on the mk4 pod covers, why isn’t the top enclosed as well to prevent debris from getting in that way? Was that intentional, or do you not get much carpet dust and debris entering that way?
I printed a set of the Spectrum style for our MaxSwerve. Of course I used our team colors, and embedded in the CAN IDs for each motor for the modules.
Yes, good observation that the mk4 units pictured here do not have top covers. This is because they are not ours. We designed the mk4 snap-on covers to help another team. If we had mk4 swerve units we would definitely cover the tops too like we do on our mk4i units.
I made this cover design!
The one our team uses was derived from a “snap on” style cover. I can’t find the original, but ours is published here, and can serve as a reference. I don’t think we even use this for our competition season, so I don’t recommend as-is.
The snap cover this was based on simply has a ~200 degree wrap around those 3 spacers (this will vary based on filament flexibility), such that you push it on from the corner, and it clicks into place. Then pull it out to remove it. Tool-less, no disassembly needed. You can see the remnants of this on our design, which have open spots where this used to be.
