Thank you! We tried finding it but got confused. Didn’t see all of the posts. Really appreciate it.
It never hurts to post your question here on the forum, first. If it is an RTM question, someone here will probably steer you where to look. Otherwise, a member will usually tell you it is a good question for the q&a.
Oh awesome. Thank you for the advice. This is my first year coaching. This is our first year having a robotics club tbh.
Have you joined the VEX World Coaches Association on Facebook? It’s a large community of mentors/teaches/coaches all working to build great robotics programs.
I did. I joined them pretty recently. Still navigating everything.
Take a look at pages 11-13 of Appendix A (the link posted by DRow).
Generally, when a new game is posted, it is worth reading the Field Specs pretty closely, as there is a LOT of info in them.
Is there a CAD file for just the Mogo? I looked on the Vex Robotics website and there is nothing. I have a CAD by copying the goal from the field and making a new component with it but for some reason, it’s 5” Outer Diameter instead of the size it should be (approx. 12.97” OD)? Idk why this is but I think if I just scale it up enough, I should get it to be the right size but I would prefer to have an official CAD of any of the goals. Thanks!
That ratio of 2.5 suggests that your CAD package read inches as cm. Googling that translation problem for your software is likely to find a solution, or go ahead and say what you’re using here and someone is likely to know.
I used Fusion360 for my cad
OK, that’s what I use and I haven’t been able to reproduce the problem. Can you detail the sequence of actions you used? Did you use the original rev 3 field CAD file from the Vex site to start with? And I don’t know if this would make any difference: what default units for new designs are set in your preferences?
I did use the rev 3 field cad from the vex website and i am not sure what my default units are but ill check later.
While you’re checking things, I guess make sure the size is right in the field CAD when you open it, and maybe try “Derive” under the Create menu to make a stand-alone CAD object to see if that keeps the dimensions. All I’m realy saying is try all your options and see if anything changes. Hopefully someone else here will have seen this problem.
Yeah. When I made the goal cad, I copied it from the field and saved it as an STL file to use in my other designs so I’ll check the size units for the field and the goal. Thanks!
Ah, conversion to and importing from STL files is a whole other sack of weasels.
What do you mean? Will changing the units not work?
So again, I don’t know everything, but I do know that I’ve had problems importing STL files into, for example, Prusa slicer and had it warn me that the units might be a problem. So as I understand it, you exported an STL file from Fusion. What did you import that STL file into? Was that back into Fusion? If it was, then I can try that here, too.
Yeah I saved as STL file and imported back into fusion into a new file.
Yeah so when I measure the field cad on fusion 360 it tells me it in mm but when converted to inches it is 141 inches (3 inches shorter than 12’). Would this have any effect on it?
We could discuss STLs more, but if you’re going to be using it in Fusion, you would be better served by exporting it as an f3d file. You do that by selecting the component by clicking on it in the browser (you’re looking for 276-7048-250 Rev3 (1) or similar) then right click and choose “export”… That’s if you want to give it to someone else. If it’s staying in your cloud, just derive a component from it by selecting it in the browser, then under “create” choose “derive” and select the box that makes a single component from it. Or you can just copy the component when you’ve selected it in the browser and paste it into your other design either by hitting ctrl V or mac equivalent, or by right clicking on the other design and selecting “paste new” to create an independent copy that you can modify without changing the original in the field file.
We’re taking up a lot of space on the general thread for the competition - I don’t know if there’s a mechanism for lifting a thread out of a post to its own space. This is a CAD methodology thing, I guess.
Cool, I got it to work. I just exported it instead of making it an stl file. Sorry for all of the posts about this topic!