Mechanical Design Tutorial F10

mechDESIGN• Physical presence of the robot• Key to mechanical design of robots is

keeping in mind all the components that go into a robot

designTOOLS• Main program: Solidworks• Solid modelling program used everywhere

from academia to industry• The UWRT has a sponsorship deal with

Solidworks• I use Solidworks at my co-op job• The tutorials are very helpful

designTIPS• Sumo competition design can be as

simple or as complex as you want• Make sure to allow for the board, motors,

wheels, and two sets of batteries.• Pay attention to how the metal will be bent

and the order in which you will be doing so

solidworksOVERVIEW

• Basis of Solidworks consists of making a 2D sketch and extruding it to a 3D object

• Useful tools like Hole Wizard, Rendering, Patterns, Fillets, Chamfers

• More advanced techniques like sweeps, lofts

• Built in FEA (Finite Element Analysis) software

solidworksMODELLING• Start with sketch

• Proceed to Extrude

solidworksMODELLING• Here is a box

solidworksTUTORIALS• These. Do them. They are your friends.

uwrtMODELS

questions?• This presentation is posted on our website• You should check our website often.• http://uwrobotics.uwaterloo.ca/