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I'm an educational content creator, and I'm currently authoring a course on mechanical engineering / control / robotics. For the course example, I'd like to build a simple robot on a rail with a few degrees of freedom that throws a ball. I'm not so well versed with Onshape, so would need help to make it look better, especially the gripping mechanism, the rail, and the other parts.
The robot is supposed to replicate a player in a game of pétanque:
www.youtube.com/watch
cad.onshape.com/documents/e6373cddd9e11ef3ed3c63e1/w/c5c2be2a5a79af89f98ffb69/e/dbf77a433ed8a91b737b253a
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- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Robot Arm - Assembly
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Rail
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Rotating Base
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Sliding Base
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Body
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Arm
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Fore Arm
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Finger Left
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Finger Right
- SolidWorks Premium 2022 SP1.0 — Ball
- Turntable configuration — original 14
- Robotic arm throwing boule — robotic arm
- SolidWorks 2018 — robotic arm link
- SolidWorks 2018 — Part2noncrane
- SolidWorks 2018 — link11
- SolidWorks 2018 — link
- SolidWorks 2018 — gripper arm2
- SolidWorks 2018 — gear11
- SolidWorks 2018 — base
- SolidWorks 2018 — gripper
- SolidWorks 2018 — robotic arm
- SolidWorks 2018 — gripper arm11x
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1) the ball radius will be max 72 mm (a ball of petanque is actually roughly between 70.5-80 mm in *diameter* according to Google, but it was a bit too small so I increased it by a factor of 2 in Onshape, see the variable "scaling" in the Variable Studio panel on the right)
2) the other dimensions should roughly be the same, the only constraint is the overall length of the rail, as it needs to fit within the court width (4 m), you can make the rail thinner or thicker, that is not a problem.
3) the idea of this project is to show how CAD can increase the visual fidelity of the robot arm without affecting its main purpose.
And finally, just to confirm the deliverable:
- Robotic arm assembly (rail, robot arm with assembled joints) as CAD files (eg: link to Onshape assembly, or if using Solidworks: STEP, SLDPRT) - ideally should be created in Onshape as the students are familiar with the tool, but Solidworks works too, as long as it's importable into Onshape without too many issues.
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i can make it for you,
you want a model that looks like a robot arm and has a hand like gripper in front how many free moving axes do you want ?
should it be more parametric that you could build it or rather nice to look at?
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If so I will submit a design using hardware (nuts, bolts, bearings, etc) from a local vendors’ parts that you prefer to work with. Otherwise I will design it using McMaster Carr hardware.
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As long as I'm able to reimport the entire assembly in Onshape for the students, and as long as the different CAD parts do not deviate too much in terms of functionality from the example provided in Onshape, I think it would be alright. Otherwise, I'll just request a license for Solidworks from my company and we can move on from there.
I can do the design in Solidworks and export into any file type you want. Parasolid (.x_t) files usually work well in onshape.
Typically these contests come with a list of file types that are acceptable. Parasolid, Iges, dxf, dwg, ai, psd, step(stp), ply, 3dm, stl, are all types that I can export to pretty easily.
Do any of those work for you?
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swoday07
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