[The CADDy]

Thank you Blake for the feedback,

You are right I was kind of vague with my wording so I will try and clarify.

Our team designs our robot using Solidworks 2015-2016. Last year we were able to create assemble the robot on CAD, and have all the correct mates so that we could show actions that our actual robot would be performing. Using solidworks we performed motion studies(mainly just to visualize the robot's moving components) and stress tests on certain parts(to the best of our abilities)

While at worlds last year another CAD member and I visited team 3539's pit and saw that they were able to "simulate" their robot on the Stronghold field and drive it around using a controller. To clarify this is not actual "simulation " because it is not answering any questions (from what I saw), but it was still a very nice way to model and visualize the moving robot without actually driving the physical one itself.

In the off season I have been trying to get a better understanding of how they were able to accomplish this. From what I understand you have to have some sort of CAD model imported into the program and then program the model in some way. I am far from getting a grasp on the whole concept that is why I came here for answers.

So the question i should ask is: Is there anyway to take a CAD model of a FRC robot and control that in a "game" format? and if so what would be the best program to use?

My end goal here is to have a drivable robot on the computer. Something similar to what Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio does.