Team Gas Diary's

[Gaseraki]

I designed the robot in maya which isn't recommended. Its what I use on a day to day basis and didn't want to learn new software. I wanted the robot to have quite a lot of parts to snap together. Advantages is if a part gets damaged I can just print a new piece and cut it out.

Main chassis is 6mm nylon, backed up with 8mm HDPE and the armor is undecided but Ti or ali is being considered mostly on weight
47 different robot parts of Nylon
42 pieces of HDPE
After I was happy with the design I imported it into illustrator and printed it all out. Initially I tried to print a giant tiled a4 sheets to create 50 by 100cm. After trying to attach the 7th sheet and not happy with the accuracy I had more sense and printed out as many parts that i could fit on a4 sheets and layed them out accordingly. Only the bulkheads needed more then a4 and was an easy task of lining up the prints.