Team Coolspeedbot: first feather weight robot

[Coolspeedbot]

is that a Storm2 esque feather I spy ?

Well.. it was just an Idea I had, I'm currently building a Antweight with a similar set up.

[Maxamuslead]

Got bored and decided to model an idea in my head.

is that a Storm2 esque feather I spy ?

[TechAUmNu]

That's about the price of one heavyweight panel lol

[R9000]

Yeah that sounds about right then.

[Coolspeedbot]

Yeah getting your whole chassis cut isn't gonna be cheap. What thickness were you going for?

4mm hardox

[R9000]

Yeah getting your whole chassis cut isn't gonna be cheap. What thickness were you going for?

[Coolspeedbot]

Got bored and decided to model an idea in my head.

[Coolspeedbot]

Soooo, I just got my quote from K-cut and well... How much?! Only kidding I did think it would going to be around £200, £190 to be exact.

Time to save some pocket money.

[Coolspeedbot]

So, there is a work around to my CAD issue. Sam Griffin AKA Sam_DRT was kind enough to test if he could convert the parts to DXF if I export them as a different file. Thanks again for doing that Sam. And through that test Sam did actually make it possible although he only tried it with one part. But by chance I discovered I had a 2D software that can read DXF and export DXF files. Using this software I was able to replicate the other parts from my Maya file in 2D and put them together with the DXF of the base plate.

[Roboteernat]

no probs

[Coolspeedbot]

thanks for the offer Nat but someone has already PMed me about helping me convert the file. I'll email you should I still need help.

[Roboteernat]

My experience with Maya (working in animation studio) you should be able to export a file and use some software to change it.
If you want to, send me the maya project file and i can try and export it to something useful.

Send me an email - npoate (hat) hot mail (dotty) com send it via weTransfer and i can take a look
Nat

[Coolspeedbot]

I'll see what I can do but it's looking like I'm not going to get anymore progress.

[Revsmin]

I wouldn't recommend using Maya for CAD anyway, its an animation and modelling package rather than engineering, I recommend trying Inventor or Fusion360

[Coolspeedbot]

Damn, I'm going to need a new CAD software then.