[Chris Herold]

This thread should go to all the persons that work on the Autodesk Inventor Design Award and accomplished, at my opinion, something beautiful!
Spending most of the last two weeks of build season on it, I had to realize how much work it is to make a model of our robot!
So but now:
How do you notice that you spent too much time working in Inventor?

1.You look at random pictures, hit F4 and try to rotate it.
2.You judge other robots by how hard it is to build them in Inventor.
3.You know 1000 ways to build a rectangle in Inventor.
4.You praise Inventor as the greatest program ever since you don't need to know some of the vocabulary words for AP Composition because you know them already. (For me as an one-year German exchange student and non-native speaker really important!)
5.You try to tell everyone that 2 GB of RAM are definitely not enough for a “normal” computer.
6.You look at your own model and know 1000 ways to make it better.
7.You try to convince other people that the Autodesk Inventor Design Award is way cooler than the Chairman's Award.
8.You try to get a regional Autodesk Inventor Design Award!
9.You complain about chiefdelphi.com since the menu with the roles on the team does not have a subject like CAD or Inventor but an “Animator” one!
10.You try to kick people off the team that suggest to make drastic changes on the robot.
11.You don't want any visible modifications of your robot since your model would be inaccurate, even after the submission deadline!
12.You are on the Chairman's Award presentation team because you know everything about your robot from Inventor.
13.You know more features of Inventor than some professionals even though you do not use the program for more than six month.
14.You don't care about the ship date since your build season will go on for another week!
15.You deinstall one of your favorite games, just to download all submissions and scout for new, better techniques.

I think I got a pretty cool list of things together and all of them are more or less accurate for my case. Overall I have to say the work in Autodesk Inventor gave me, as a single person team, an amazing challenge and I really enjoyed working with it. As the submission deadline came, I spend several days working later than ever before.
I greatly appreciate all persons that work in Inventor for this award for it is an amazing task! Thank you Autodesk for sponsoring it!
After all I also learned that this is something I definitely want to do later when I graduated from college.

Good luck for all teams in the competition!

Chris
Team 1983 – The Skunkworks