Common Parts

PAH

Hello,

Our FRC team would like to try and use OnShape for our Robot. We found 8020 profiles in the community space and made a copy. To make many different lengths of the profile is there a way to just change one number and create a part? We found the one file with the profile. Do we just need to duplicate this file for each different length?
1515 x20"
1515 x5"
1515 x6.5"

MBartlett21

@PAH
You can configure the length of your extrusion, or you can use either of these beam features to create and extrude the profiles for you:

Neil Cooke's:   https://cad.onshape.com/documents/e15c2c668d138f01242d0c80

Mine:               https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cbcb5406bdf8ec15703a9e9e

PAH

Thank you for trying to help me. You go cart frame is the right Idea. I just do not understand the way it was created. It is far more advanced that I expected. I just want an easy way for high school students (grade 9-12) can make a robot without recreating every part. We will use only one extruded aluminum profile. I just want them to determine all the lengths so they can layout the entire robot. It needs to be simple for high school students to grasp and me!

MBartlett21

@PAH

First, you will need a sketch with lines corresponding to the beam or beams you want to make.
You can then run either FeatureScript on the line, choosing the profile you want.