Design - AutoCAD

Design - to create and draw the layout of our design using AutoCAD so that we can understand and visualise it better ... 

This is the design of our claw in AutoCAD. Due to some manufacturing flaws, such as tolerance, we designed the arms to be a little longer to compansate the bending length.

Our group approached our lecturer for some feedback and the advice given was to increased the space within the arms as it gives a higher probability of the can being capture. And our lecturer also reminded us that the car might not be propery programmed, and the car may not stop at the point we wanted. Thus, we have double the width of the ams and also increased the length of the arms too.

The lecturer also suggested us to draw a 3 views orthographic projection of our design, which includes the front plane, the top plane and the end plane. This is for our blogges and classmates to visualise and understand our concept better.

We tried to simplifly our design by bending one end of the arm inwards. We are confident that the Acrylic is stable enough if only one side of the arm is connected to the car with the motor. We bended the other end of the end inwards so as to create a loop to capture the can.

This way it saves time while maufacturing and also reduces friction at the other end.