With all the CADs of its individual subsystems finished, we can now put together the full design of the snailbot! We took a final look at the designs Sarah and I created, checking to see that everything was the right size and would fit together, then moved all the subsystems onto a single file. The widths for the vertical intake and chassis were widened slightly to fit the width of the frame and hood, but otherwise there weren’t any major problems or adjustments and we were able to easily join the subsystems together.
This took place over the course of a few weeks as the process was a bit tedious. As we described in our last journal entry, putting together subsystems in Fusion is a lot harder than in real life, because a lot of it relies on spacing which is quite a bit harder in CAD. Although we finished most of the robot, we left a few things unattached for now, such as the front rollers. This will be a lot easier to figure out once we get real parts, so we hope to save a bit of time by completing this on the finished robot.
Next, we’ll work on creating parts list so that we can gather up the materials we expect to use, and hopefully move towards building the systems at home.
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