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Originally Posted by EricRobodox
Last year and this year, the two years i have been on the team, we have set building the robot as priority over cad and animation.
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Our teams set the robot as priority because it is priority. Your supposed to run your team as a business. Sponsors are other companies that invest in your product. Shipdate is your teams deadline to finish the robot. This is why we put so many awards and prizes behind the robots. How many regional awards go to teams with good robots, and how many regional awards to teams with good Inventor and Animation work? FIRST started as a robotics competition and that's where it's roots lie. Hopefully, as time passes, Inventor will become a stronger part of FIRST, maybe be a regional award in coming years. With how FIRST, and engineering technology develops we could easy see teams have design teams match, in size, manufacturing teams. But that is all the future, for now we have to work to spread our message to try and make our departments heard. Your teams, along with FIRST, will gain more respect for CAD when we put effort into showing everybody our products. Display Inventor parts in team newspapers, tours, ect. That is how Inventor and CAD will become respected not only in our teams but FIRST as well.
