![]() |
Time Saving Idea
Posted by Chris, Coach on team #308, Walled Lake Monster, from Walled Lake Schools and TRW Automotive Electronics.
Posted on 3/30/99 11:02 AM MST This may have been brought up before, but I never saw anything posted, so I'll propose this here. I would like to see FIRST give all of the teams an electronic drawing package with the kit of parts. What do I mean? If you draw your robot parts on a CAD package (which I think most teams do), teams need to spend time creating drawings of the parts in the kit that they want to use so they can use these parts in the overall CAD drawing. This can take teams a long time to do. Most experienced teams save their CAD files from one year to the next, but rookie teams don't have this luxury (and many people on this site are always discussing ways to get rookie teams up to speed faster). Even experienced teams decide to use things from the kit that they haven't used in the past. This is my proposal (and contingency proposal): Proposal: Every company that makes parts should have CAD drawings of their parts (how else would they manufacutre them?) The companies should convert the CAD drawings to IGES format and give the drawings to FIRST along with the donated parts. FIRST could then combine all of the drawings onto one CD-ROM and place the CD-ROM in the kit along with all of the parts. I'm not asking anyone to give away such detailed drawings that they give away company secrets. For example: I don't care how the inside of a motor works, but it would be nice to have a drawing of the casing, the mounting points, and the output shaft. Contingency Proposal: Perhaps companies won't donate their drawings. However, as I stated earlier, most teams create drawings of the kit parts that they are using on their robots. Maybe a database of these drawings could be created by teams 'donating' the drawings that they have done. Between all of the teams, almost all of the kit parts should be covered. The only issue is finding a place to maintain the database. Any ideas on this? |
Re: Time Saving Idea
Posted by Nate Smith, Student on team #74, Holland FIRST Robotics, from Holland High School and Haworth, Inc..
Posted on 3/30/99 1:49 PM MST In Reply to: Time Saving Idea posted by Chris on 3/30/99 11:02 AM MST: I know that last year, AutoDesk released an electronic version of the Kit, and I think I remember seeing posts early this year that it was still floating around somewhere... Nate |
| All times are GMT -5. The time now is 00:52. |
Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.6.4
Copyright ©2000 - 2017, Jelsoft Enterprises Ltd.
Copyright © Chief Delphi