Friends,
I shall be receiving my very own SSC-32 today. My first plan of action is to model the board and its basic parts in SolidWorks. If the model appears to be something many would desire I’d love to leave a copy here for anyone to use.
I design mechanical parts for a living and so the model will be done with fairly tight tolerances. (I’ll use calipers to retrieve the dimensions).
I’ll post pictures ASAP…
If you email the model to me I can put it up for download on the 3-D Models section of our website.
Email: [email protected]
Beth,
I started it last night but was not able to finish populating it. There are a lot of little bits on that board. I personally like to have any part that juts into 3D space modeled so that when I actually build the machine I won’t be suprised by some errant part interferring with the rest of the assembly.
I’m going to include the jumpers so that the model could be used for instruction too. I had to use my analog calipers as my digital ones seem to have spontianiously juxtaposed with thin air so the part will probably be only accurate to +/- .01-.02…
Do you want the .SLDPRT the .SLDASM and IGS formats?
Any format is fine with me. In fact, the more, the better, as not everyone uses Solidworks. Thanks for doing this!
Hello ^_^,
I really enjoy this kind of stuff. Do you think they will need anything other than IGS files? SolidWorks has very robust export ability. I don’t really know the preferred format for the other programs they are creating with here. I’ve seen what looks like images from Inventor here. When I was using AutoDesk software it seemed to respond to IGS better than DXF as far as creating a usable model.
If anyone wants to leave thier preferred format here I’ll E-Mail those to Beth too.
P.S. If you trust me enough to give me the actual Specs/Dwgs on the board I would be able to incorperate even more detail into the model and save a lot of time and guess work. Do you have any Cad on the drill/pad layout and if I put the traces and the artwork on it it would look really cool. You already have posted the fact that all of the information on your site is proprietary so if anyone took the model to copy the design you could send an Agent to Delete them…
Hello,
I added the servo posts, the Atmel chip and the serial port last night. I have a few componants left. I’ll try to finish tonight…
Done
It’s as close as I could get with the tools and the time I had to work with.
I’ll send the file(s) to Beth so she can post them at LM if she wishes.
Holy poop!
Maybe there really are people crazier than I am…
It looks real nice, if just a tad bit anal-retentive.
Then again… I’m always the one preaching overkill.
Nick,
And here I was thinking that I should have added the solder terminals and detailed the Atmel a little more…
I like to have all of the parts that invade 3D space modeled. My machines are very small and space is at a premium. If I go through all the trouble of pre-designing a 'bot in SolidWorks only to find out that the model and the actual part have differances in the envelope and that I have to change something on both the 3D and the prototype it miffs a bit…
Thank You for the Kudos.
Is that model available for download anywhere?
Thank you
It’s a beautiful model
Thank you!
