Making Simple Robots, 2nd Edition

INSTRUCTIONS

1. To make the version of a wheg shown in the example here, start with a

wheel. You’ll place the legs inside the wheel, to make sure the feet form

a circle. To do that:

• Drag a cylinder onto the Workplane

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• Grab one of the corners and stretch the cylinder to make it 60mm

wide and 60mm long. (That’s about 2 1/2 inches.)

TIP: To get exact measurements, click on the corner of the shape,

where you see tiny white boxes. The current size will appear. Click on

a white box to turn it red. Now you can type over the numbers shown.

• Set the cylinder height to 8mm.

• In the cylinder shape’s pop-up box, click on “Solid” to change ...