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Originally Posted by Sunshine

We used our drafting plotter to print out the field at a known scale. Ours is something like a 24" by 5 foot drawing. Once we knew the scale, we could then make scale models of our robot. Now the programmers could measure distances from different starting locations. This allows them the opportunity to program knowing thatg we will tweak the final configuration later on the actual arena mock-up.

This seems like the kind of thing you might want to do in Solidworks or Inventor...