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Originally Posted by ksafin
OK.
Say we obtain a sponsor that can do various fabrication, waterjet cutting, CNC machining, etc.
At that point I have another question. Our team organization is based around the fact that everyone works with what we have and is contributing to an assembly.
With most of the design/assembly itself being done in CAD and then sent off, what does the mechanical team do? In essence, if the drivetrain is being made in CAD and made my a sponsor, what does the actual mechanical team do while the design team is CADing it and sending it off?
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Using what you currently have effectively is great, 973 prides itself on it, but that doesn't mean you can not strive to do more. No one suggests that you should get the entire robot outsourced (it's pretty much impossible to do so anyway), but intelligently using a sponsor or two can really improve your products.
Are you saying that CADing designs somehow takes away from the work of mechanical people? I'm unsure how to read that.
The mechanical people should be involved with designing the robot in CAD, and if the guys that just love putting stuff together refuse to be a part of the design process, they can spend time prototoyping over and over to end up with a killer manipulator.