Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
 

I second that thats how it should be.

Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
 

Well not really. We have several hurdles to jump before it would get used to design the robot. Good tech support from the school (they say the computers are too fast to run inventor and we can't install software without their permission). Several students that would want to learn it from just books and on line tutorials (people like to be taught by a real live person). And finally nobody has a problem with the way we do things now, which is on the chalk board, with verbal descriptions and discussions (why fix something that is not broken)

Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
 

k so my team just got some really $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# news.

Our CIMS class was doing field trips to CAR, a manufacturing company that mass produces parts are designed for the automotive industry mostly. They said that any parts that we can fully dimension and produce on a CAD system and hand to them theyll make it for us free or extremely ceap of cost.

It just goes to show how much more CAD is becoming usefull, because now we can use ou models to make parts. Its great