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Re: Is CAD essential to all teams?

If you have a sponsor or in-house workshop that is just waiting on your CAD to crank out beautifully worked pieces, and you aren't CADding yet, then absolutely CAD should be on your short list of talents to develop. If your machining is done in-house on a drill press or chop saw, then you have a real question as to whether CADding your robot design would be an improvement. The bottom line is that CAD is a tool whose real value is dependent on your team's other manufacturing capabilities; your team may or may not be ready to improve its processes based on CAD.
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