[Racer26]

Historically, 1075 has tried to get at the very least a base chassis done (ie. aluminum TIG welded) by the end of week 1, we try to spend no more than 2 days doing initial design. We find that if we wait till week 2 or 3 to start building, we would never find the problems and such in time. Of course, historically, we've just skipped the whole CAD phase and went straight for building it. CAD seems like it would take a whole lot of time that could be better spent building and refining, at least in our eyes. Its as it was said above, different teams do different things, and whatever works best for your team and gets the robot in the crate 6 weeks from now is the right thing to do.