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Originally Posted by asid61
Okay, I agree 100% with you. My own experience with bad CAD and apathy on my team has made me a stickler for CAD and custom parts. It just really annoys me when team members try to make things by hand that should really be machined. I feel like if my own team tried this, we would end up doing a lot by hand that should really be sent to a professional. Thus, I say 2x1 because versachassis looks "finished" and could end up badly if people start messing with it with hand drills.
Not sure if I'm getting my mindset across here.
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I totally get what you mean. I make sure that whenever we use COTS parts, everything is put in CAD and treated as if it were a custom part that we designed, sketched, extruded, mated, and assembled ourselves. The only difference between the CAD and the real part is that we buy the real part, we don't make all of it (though like in the case with the versatubing, we do machine parts of it ourselves, but all machining is already included in the CAD model). This method allows our students to learn as much as possible as if we designed the part ourselves, but still have the ease of use, reliability, and time saving advantages that a COTS component normally has, like Adam previously mentioned.