Thread: When and how do you create a whole-robot design?
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Re: When and how do you create a whole-robot design?
It depends on how much CAD talent we have. The students who had the most experience with CAD graduated last year, so this year, we didn't get as much CADed as we liked. You can really see the difference in the final product. We were able to get the robot done a lot sooner (I believe CADed by around week 3), so we had the opportunity to paint it and make it look great. This year, however, because a lot of our design was done on the fly, we ran into a lot more problems and took a lot longer to build. As a result, our final product didn't perform as well as we hoped nor did it look aesthetically pleasing.
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