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Originally Posted by Chris Mounts
Your CAD model is amazing!
A couple questions:
How many students / mentors are doing CAD?
At what point in build to you start fabrication?
Are your students learning CAD outside of robotics?
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We have about 6-7 students contributing on CAD (varying greatly by year), and we had about 3 mentors very involved and about 3 more helping with CAD. For context we have about 35-40 students total, but only 20 or so coming consistently.
We send out our drivebase for sponsor manufacturing around week 2 and usually get a 2 week turn around on those parts. The rest of the in-house stuff we start after the completion of superstructure CAD, which is ideally the beginning of week 3, but often gets pushed back...
Some of our students choose to participate in our summer third robot project, where a lot of the focus is on developing CAD skills (not sure if that counts as outside robotics, but it isn't during the season), other students have taken intern positions where they use their CAD skills, some are enrolled in our school's engineering class where they learn basic CAD, and some do projects on their own for fun or to specifically learn SolidWorks.