Thread: Does CAD get respect on your team?
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Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
Let's put it this way: CAD should be an important par tof your team.

Otherwise, you are missing out on a significant part of the modern engineering cyle. Can a FIRST robot be designed without it? Absolutely. Should it be designed without it? Not if one of your goals is to expose your students to the entire realm of engineering.

Team 217 places a priority on CAD. Specifically, we teach our students how to use Solidworks and then we design 95% of the robot in SW prior to building anything. In most cases we give some of our sponsors the solid model and they build the part from the student designed model with no drawing. All of our sheet metal is designed this way.

So, yes, our CAD gets respect.