Thread: What Percent of Teams Use CAD?
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Re: What Percent of Teams Use CAD?
I'm the only one on my team who uses SolidWorks and attends meetings regularly, but we model everything up before building. Between the CAD work and some basic prototyping, we build every mechanism on our robot once this year and had no issues we weren't able to fix without rebuilding the mechanism. Is it necessary? No... but you better have the resources to build and rebuild things when something doesn't fit right.

I plan on holding a SolidWorks course for any of our students who are interested, and hopefully we'll be able to CAD up EVERYTHING on the robot next year. Not having time to plan out mounting holes or gussets was probably the biggest problem we had from the design side.
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