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The MOE Pit

The MOE pit cart is used to provide an organized way to transport and store tools and spare parts. MOE had been asked by first teams to see nonexistent blueprints of the pit. Will Hopkins, a past MOE student, learned how to create assemblies in Autodesk Inventor, and assembled the pit cart as his senior project. We hope you will be able to use this tool to help manage and organize the 10'x10' Competition pit.


MOE Pit Photo -- front view     MOE Pit Photo -- side view



Design and Optimization of a Pit Cart Using 3D CAD Software

MOE Pit Presentation Title Page Presentation by Will Hopkins from MOE 365 and Mentor Kirstin Shilkitus from MOE 365 and DuPont at the 2007 first Championships.
This PowerPoint overview explains the design process and advantages of MOE's pit cart, which can be used by first teams to design their own pit carts, adapt the software for other uses, like robot design, and improve their own design process. Team 365 has used the design process and software to improve its pit and dramatically increase efficiency and safety in the pit area (download presentation 29MB).

Autodesk Inventor® Files of the MOE Pit

You can download the complete files for the MOE pit in Autodesk Inventor® format -- familiar to all first teams (download zipped files 15MB). After these files are downloaded and unzipped you will find the following main files, among dozens of others. The Main files are labled exactly as they appear below. For these files to open you will need to use the accompanying parts.
MOE Pit Main Cart Assembly 1. Main Cart Assembly -- See the ins and outs of the MOE pit. This file contains the assembly file (.iam file) of the pit put together, and all the parts needed to open as an assembly file.
MOE Pit Main Cart Assembly Detailed Drawing 2. Main Cart Assembly Detailed Drawing -- Complete detailed drawing of MOE Pit, containing the exact dimensions.
MOE Pit Box Assembly Detailed Drawing 3. Box Assembly Detailed Drawing -- Upper Storage compartment detailed drawings, containing the exact dimensions needed for the bottom half of the MOE pit cart.
MOE Pit Top Assembly Detailed Drawing 4. Top Assembly Detailed Drawing -- Countertop/ Work surface detailed drawing, containing the exact dimensions for the support of the work surface portion of the pit.

Credits: The structural materials used in the drawings were "Rexroth" parts downloaded and converted from the Bosch website.