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Re: Using Inventor for Arm torque calcs

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Originally Posted by Greg Needel View Post
On another note, FIRST robot design is about teaching kids engineering methods, and just saying " make it good and strong" doesn't teach a student anything.
I did not intend that they should not learn it. I am just stating that for a six week project there is not time to learn such an advanced software command. Afterall, look at ChrisH for example. From the resume he posted, he is more experienced then most if not all of the students in FIRST. Also, he spent a month to learn this command. This is clearly not a command to try and learn within the six weeks that you are building the robot. I suggest to any teams out there trying to learn this technique and build a robot, that you focus on building the robot now, and learn about stress analysis during the off-season.