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Originally Posted by AquaMorph
Because this year they released CAD models. I feel like the discussion has gone a bit off topic. If your go back to the original post it asks for ideas to improve some of the problems Ri3D creates. I feel like sugarcoating the problems and not trying to find solutions to them is foolish. Looking at the robots for ideas and proof of concept is great but having the CAD files and being able to assemble the robot like it is a kit is too far in my opinion.
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By that logic, should teams release any CAD of their robots ever? 2011, in essence, had a basically identical task to 2007; if another tube hanging game comes up should all CAD from 2011 be released? Same thing for 2006/09/12 and even this year and 2014, with very similar tasks
The only ones being hurt by a team "directly copying part for part" Ri3D/Build Blitz is that team themselves for not testing their personal design abilities. To everyone else, CAD being released is just a cool, fun thing to look at, or to just closer view a certain mechanism.