Design Resources

Useful Online Resources

Onshape Basic Setup forFRC - Walkthrough into installing onshape
Onshape's Proprietary Learning Resources - Onshape’s own design platform into learning CAD at all levels.
3005 Robochargers Summer Onshape Class - A CAD class made specifically for FRC and robotics. If you want to learn CAD in a robotics environment START HERE if working at home. We cover the first two weeks or so.
Feature Scripts - A website with multiple feature scripts, used to automate aspects of design
FRCDesign.org - Another robotics CAD resource in development.
Chief Delphi - Forum to stay up to date for anything FRC or robotics.
The Blue Alliance - Resource for scouting, match data, videos and much more.
Statbotics - Similar to Blue Alliance but specifically for data analysis and visualization.

McMaster - Industrial supply company for a variety of products like fasteners, bearings gears etc.
Andymark - Main supplier for robot specific parts
Rev Robotics - Secondary supplier
West Coast Products - Another supplier
Thrifty Bot - Affordable parts and kits.
Swerve Drive Specialities - Says in the name, company that specializes in swerve drive systems.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mGUbDagbIQCSvaXb1p8mCmoFG--0c67WHuSI-37BeuY/editThings to Go Through

DOCUMENT 1

https://bit.ly/3zaudHe write this on the board.

Parts and Assembly Tabs
Each Subsystem (climber, swerve, intake) Gets it own Document
To make sure that the Robot doesn’t get too cluttered, but you can organize the way you want.
Assemblies - different parts form an assembly (wheel, axles).
Parts - where you model all of your individual parts, show up in the bottom left

**Parts Studio - interrelated parts can be modeled in the same environment (studio), (Dumb things that don't move might be in one parts studio)
Documents can be broken up into different part studios.

Feature Tree - Every action you take is in the feature tree, shows the history of all of the changes you’ve made, above the parts,
Everything is moveable and customisable.
Tab features, bottom left; Tab manager to the left of the plus
Version History, under the onshape logo, branch and merge designs, high level feature tree
We need to be able to move around, Cube to change the view, Press the drop down for more options
Mouse Controls

Scroll in, zoom in and out, zooms were the pointer is
Clicking and holding the middle mouse button you can move around one dimensionally
Double middle mouse click to reset to the center
Right mouse button you can orbit the part
Apply to both parts and assemblies.
If you are really used to using solidworks or fusion go to your account, preferences, and pick the mouse settings

DOCUMENT 2

Origin is the central point and what we base the model off of.
Press sketch, leave the dialog box up in the corner, If you see a dialog box that's highlighted, if you click on something on the screen it will get put into the box.
If you want to do what the dialog box says leave it open
You can toggle visibility on the planes in the feature tree.
Toolbar has a bunch of shapes, you will most likely use a lot of these
Pressing it activates the tool, if you press escape it will get you out of the tool, after you’re done using a tool PRESS ESCAPE, so you don't get lost in a random tool.
DONT CLICK AND DRAG. its two clicks

Constraints - are geometric rules that you can impose on a model and they have to follow then (hover over points and you can see parallel and perpendicular

If you make a rectangle in accordance with the origin it will add a constraint with the origin.
Black means constrained
If you make a rectangle starting on the origin (yellow square) coincident constraint, a corner point is attached to the origin.
First thing you do in a sketch is constrain something to the origin

After the dialog box is open select a region, a closed in area (our rectangle), (highlighted blue), make sure its on solid, 4 inches width

Add tab adds to the original part (so a new part is not created in the parts list)
New tab creates a new part (a new part is created in the list)
Remove tab deletes a part of the shape (creates a hole)

Up to part, up to vertex instead of blind, or through all, mess around with them.

Merge Scope tells onshape what part to make changes to, if you add multiple parts it will remove from multiple parts.
Add 1 inch

Ask them to create a part two inches long above the original rectangle with a gap of .5 inches, on the front face (draw it on the board if necessary), then extrude it two inches perpendicular to the original
Show off the Feature tree, right click and edit certain parts in history to make changes

Make a circle on a side of the gray rectangle and dimension WHILE making the circle, if it's in a gray box it's waiting for some sort of input.
Ask them to make this shape →
Finish the sketch and it should creates a hole