{"id":222,"date":"2011-12-07T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T15:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/robot-cad-tutorial-in-solidworks"},"modified":"2011-12-07T10:25:42","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T15:25:42","slug":"robot-cad-tutorial-in-solidworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/12\/robot-cad-tutorial-in-solidworks.html","title":{"rendered":"Robot CAD Tutorial in SolidWorks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Need a CAD tutorial to learn how to create a Robot&#0160;model in SolidWorks?&#0160; It&#39;s competive robot season again and time to get prepared by understanding how to create and assemble parts in SolidWorks.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015437f9d5b7970c.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"FRC Main Assembly\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e2015437f9d5b7970c image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e2015437f9d5b7970c-800wi.jpg\" title=\"FRC Main Assembly\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>1. Start with best practices review our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.solidworks.com\/sw\/education\/robotics-engineering-programs.htm?PID=106\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SolidWorks Robot Tutorials\">robot tutorials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>2. Download the Main Assembly&#0160;3D CAD model&#0160;below and see the completed robot.<\/p>\n<p>3. Customize SolidWorks with SolidWorks Resources&gt;Add Folder Locations to have a library of parts to choose from.<\/p>\n<p>4. Use your <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/09\/solidworks-curriculum-for-educators-on-the-solidworks-customer-portal.html\" target=\"_self\" title=\"SolidWorks Customer Portal\">SolidWorks Customer Portal<\/a> account to download other robot models for&#0160; Lego, Vex,&#0160;Tetrix kits&#0160;and projects to prepare for competitions.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Main Assembly Model Files: <span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20162fd7bc50c970d\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/main-assembly.zip\">Download Main Assembly<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20162fd7bc50c970d\">Video: <span class=\"asset  asset-video at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20153942654c4970b\"><a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/robot-competition-frc-lego-vex-ftc-b.mp4\">Download Robot Competition FRC LEGO VEX FTC B<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Need a CAD tutorial to learn how to create a Robot&#0160;model in SolidWorks?&#0160; It&#39;s competive robot season again and time to get prepared by understanding how to create and assemble parts in SolidWorks. 1. Start with best practices review our<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/12\/robot-cad-tutorial-in-solidworks.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4015,5219,4770,5211],"tags":[4238,4855,4856,3940,4546,4549,4519,4550,4715,4854,4853,4446,4447,4852,4597],"class_list":["post-222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mechanical-engineering","category-robotics-2","category-solidworks-tutorials","category-technology-2","tag-assembly","tag-battlebots","tag-build","tag-design","tag-first","tag-frc","tag-gears","tag-lego","tag-mate","tag-nrl","tag-pitsco","tag-robot","tag-robotics","tag-tetrix","tag-vex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}