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Originally Posted by waterbott
Our team is trying to fully integrate CAD into robotics design for next year. In what ways can CAD be helpful to the Electrical team? All I can think of is teaching how to design an electrical board on CAD.
For some background, our team uses Solidworks student edition.
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The CAD models for most electrical components like the robo-rio, PDP, PCM, VRM and the motor controllers are available, meaning that you can plan out where you are going to put the electrical and control system components before the robot is constructed. Most of the control system components, have mounting holes, so by designing the robot with these you can easily and securely mount the control system. For example we mounted 3 Talon SRX's on our turret shooter( all CNC milled), we wouldn't have been able to build in the space required for these without the use of CAD