[Thad House]

Originally Posted by cxcad

With such a small team, how do you manage to get the students to prototype, cad, and build two robots? In particular, how do you guys manage to do such detailed cad work so fast?

I think the key is to NOT do super detailed cad work. For things like drivetrains, its already pretty known what is needed, so you can usually use much simpler constraints and just get your custom pieces designed correctly. If its missing a few parts, or some holes are not exactly the right size, that is usually ok, because those things can usually be written out manually faster then cadded.

Another thing is that if you cad everything first, building multiples of something really doesn't add too much time. It doesn't take 2 times as long to build a second part, because most of the time is spent setting up the machines anyway.