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Originally Posted by Kenny Cheung
Would making CAD files downloadable on your team's website (in an accessible place like a Resources tab or something) be sufficient to satisfy R13? Do you have to advertise it in a post on a public forum like Chief Delphi?
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Here are the two examples from R13 in
last year's manual (PDF page 35).
EXAMPLE 4: A different Team develops a similar solution during the fall, and plans to use the developed software on their competition ROBOT. After completing the software, they post it in a generally accessible public forum and make the code available to all Teams. Because they have made their software publicly available before Kickoff, they can use it on their ROBOT.
EXAMPLE 5: A Team develops a transmission during the fall. After completing the project, they publish the CAD files on a generally accessible public forum and make them available to all Teams. Because they have made the design publicly available before Kickoff, they can use the design to create an identical transmission, fabricated after Kickoff, for use on their 2015 ROBOT.
My reading of this is that "make available" is posting it on your site, and that posting on a "generally accessible public forum" means CD or the FIRST forums. The other teams that are posting are thinking something similar, and I've had in person conversations with other teams that read this the same way.
Finally, I'll point out that the ultimate decisionmaker on this would be a robot inspector at the event.