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Re: Does anyone have any tips to Cad and design your first FRC robot?

I always start my design process by determining my goals. What do I want to do? How much space can I use? How fast should I be going?
Then I go into JVN Design Calculator and figure out my motors and gearings for my gearboxes. Learning how motors work and how much power/heat they make is critical to knowing what gearing to use.
I then make a layout sketch in CAD defining what the overall shape of the robot will look like. This is a single sketch that contains all the major parts of the robot.
Finally, I start making individual parts and putting them together.

For your first robot, if your team isn't strong in CAD, I would skip it at this point. With only a few weeks until build season, your time is better spent familiarizing yourself with on-paper design and accurate drawing without worrying about digital design at all. If you're doing this for yourself, then first read up on Inventor tutorials until you understand all the basics of CAD software. Then watch RAMP videos on Youtube and dig up other FRC tutorials.
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