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Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?

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Originally Posted by Henry Anthony
I am wondering if your team considers CAD as an important part of the competition or is there little interest in it?
Initially, i must admit that i looked at CAD as a pretty pathetic part of the team. I thought it wasnt really contolling anything, but we did have one kid who had some REALLY different ideas, and made some good visualizations to explain them. Despite the fact that we never used them, they were seriously taken into consideration above other peoples designs because he had displayed how it could work, not just explained, capturing the larger audience.

I still have people on my team who think that i do nothing, but after working with the one kid for the animation award and winning the award in the fingerlakes regional, we got a lot more respect. I think that our team realizes now the importance of a CAD system working in a company environment, and the potential it has. I think that anyone going into the engineering field will realize the importance of CAD in their college years because it certainly has an impact.