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We encourage all the members(students/ parents/mentors) to gain a basic knowledge of the Solidworks package. The team provides various levels of CAD training. Each team member needs to know how/where the files are saved. How to open the assemblies to see where each part goes. How to create a critical to function drawing of the 3D part for manufacturing. We start the CAD training as new members and they get 4 years to learn how to build a robot. We have brought in professional Solidwork instructors over the summer. One of the cool things about our team is we have mentors provide design and manufacturing input while the team members are CADING up parts. How to manufacture the parts and be cost effective is just as important as how to design the parts.

CAD is one of the most important aspects of being able to build a powerhouse robot year in year out. Each generation of team adds to our knowledge base of building cool robots.