{"id":353,"date":"2011-01-15T18:32:29","date_gmt":"2011-01-15T23:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/3d-surface-cad-model-for-2011-frc-field-of-play-for-logo-motion-tm-"},"modified":"2011-01-15T18:32:29","modified_gmt":"2011-01-15T23:32:29","slug":"3d-surface-cad-model-for-2011-frc-field-of-play-for-logo-motion-tm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/01\/3d-surface-cad-model-for-2011-frc-field-of-play-for-logo-motion-tm.html","title":{"rendered":"3D Surface CAD Model for 2011 FRC Field of Play for Logo Motion (TM)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"250\" id=\"PreviewFrame3D\" name=\"PreviewFrame3D\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/external-site-embed.aspx?format=3D&amp;catalogid=171&amp;modelid=224032&amp;width=250&amp;height=250\" width=\"250\"><\/iframe><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/download-model.aspx?catalogid=171&amp;id=224032\">Download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Opening the game field model in Pro E or Inventor for the 2011 FRC contest has been a challange for students using SolidWorks software to design their robot with respect to the field of play.&#0160; A student sent me a parasolid model and so I started to think what the best way was to present this model to all teams.<\/p>\n<p>Dealing with imported geometry requires understanding a few things about SolidWorks &#8211; first of all a parasolid file format provides the best data for SolidWorks to import.&#0160; The file extension is .x_t.&#0160; The original file size of the field was in megabytes. Since you cant modify the geometry of the field, you want this&#0160;model as small as possible.&#0160; How did I reduce the file size?&#0160;&#0160; If you have a parasolid file or other neutral file format like IGES, STEP, here are the steps:<\/p>\n<p>1. Select File, Open,<\/p>\n<p>2. Select the neutral file format &#8211; in this case .x_t<\/p>\n<p>3. The model opens &#8211; this takes a while<\/p>\n<p>4. Select File, Save As, Part<\/p>\n<p>5. Select the option External Faces<\/p>\n<p>6. Click Save<\/p>\n<p>Now you have a very light weight surface model that is a single part.&#0160; This part can be inserted into a new assembly where you test your robot.<\/p>\n<p>This light weight part file of the field is available for all FRC teams no matter what type of&#0160;software&#0160;you use&#0160;at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/\">www.3DContentCentral.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For SolidWorks teams, you can download the 2010 below.&#0160; For 2009 SolidWorks users, please use the second link below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"asset  asset-generic at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20147e19d7a75970b\">Model in SolidWorks 2010: <a href=\"https:\/\/solidworks.typepad.com\/files\/2011_frc_field.sldprt\">Download 2011_frc_field<\/a><\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>Model in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3dcontentcentral.com\/Download-Model.aspx?catalogid=171&amp;id=224032\" target=\"_self\" title=\"3DContentCentral\">SolidWorks 2009 and other 3D and 2D file formats<\/a>&#0160;<a href=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20147e19dc28e970b.jpg\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"2011 FRC Field for Logo Motion Robotics\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d83451706569e20147e19dc28e970b image-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/6a00d83451706569e20147e19dc28e970b-800wi.jpg\" title=\"2011 FRC Field for Logo Motion Robotics\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div class=\"mcePaste\" id=\"_mcePaste\" style=\"position: absolute; width: 1px; height: 1px; overflow: hidden; top: 0px; left: -10000px;\">?<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#0160; Download Opening the game field model in Pro E or Inventor for the 2011 FRC contest has been a challange for students using SolidWorks software to design their robot with respect to the field of play.&#0160; A student sent<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2011\/01\/3d-surface-cad-model-for-2011-frc-field-of-play-for-logo-motion-tm.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":2188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5219],"tags":[5074,5103,4549,5105,5104,4447],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-robotics-2","tag-2011kop","tag-field","tag-frc","tag-game","tag-logomotion","tag-robotics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","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=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}