6 motor drive turning for blocks

[PizzaIsSuperior]

My team is trying to use a 6 motor drive and we found out how to use all motors to move forward and backward, but no matter the research, I can’t find out how to make it turn. We are using block code.

[rs1]

If you want to turn right, spin the left wheels forward and the right wheels backward.
If you want to turn left, spin the right wheels forward and the left wheels backward.

If you are using a 6 motor drive, how are you coding it in blocks? Are you using switch blocks? With switch blocks, you can make 3-motor motor groups.

[PizzaIsSuperior]

[rs1]

Shouldn’t the spin motor forward statements be inside of the forever loop?

[evasnphysics]

Here are the forum posts that explain how to use block code to make a motor group with more than 2 motors and how to make a drivetrain with more than 4 motors, as rs1 mentioned…

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[Hudsonville_Robotics]

You could save yourself some work and use the default drivetrain with a little bit of extra code. See this link:

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[PizzaIsSuperior]

We ended up testing a 4 motor drive to see if all of this was worth it and it works great so no need for extra code now