Hi, my name's John Nordman and I am a SOLIDWORKS intern at Dassault Systemes, Waltham. I'm excited to share this project with everyone - for the past 6 weeks, the SOLIDWORKS interns took on an FRC challenge. The goal for the interns was to create a fully functioning robot to compete in the FRC game Crescendo. 

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The interns were split into 3 teams: mechanical, software and electrical. They all worked together to design and build the robot. I am the team lead for the mechanical design and all of it was done using xDesign! The cloud platform was extremely helpful and allowed the mechanical team to work together on shared drives and full assemblies. From xDesign we were able to fully create subassemblies which we used to manufacture and build the actual robot in the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab

This challenge started on a chassis from AndyMark which we were able import into xDesign as a STEP file and then start designing on top of that geometry. 

After naming our robot Wall-E @SM designed and 3D printed this light mount to add some personality to our design.

After manufacturing all of the parts using the 3DEXPERIENCE Lab machinery. We assembled the full robot and this is how it came out. All the plastic colorful parts were 3D printed using Bambu Labs P1S FDM printer. The E-board was made up of laser cut plywood and the upstructure walls were made on the CNC Router out of MDF.

Overall this project was a great way to experience and learn xDesign and the possibilities that the cloud apps provide for collaboration throughout the design process.