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Re: TO All The CAD DESIGNERS
Posted by Elgin C at 03/22/2001 12:52 PM EST


Engineer on team #237, Sie-H20-Bots, from Watertown High School / NVCC.


In Reply to: TO All The CAD DESIGNERS
Posted by Gabe on 03/21/2001 10:29 PM EST:



I'm the intern CAD Guy on Team 237 and we started using SolidWorks on the robot. The high school team adopted the college I go to to do CAD work this year. The college even intergrated the CAD work for the robot into the curiculum for my CAD Design class.

The problem we had with CAD was that in only six weeks there is very little time to go through the steps of sketching a part, drawing the part in CAD, revising the part and then finally making the part.

It turns out that I ended up reverse engineering 95% of the parts on Version 1 of the robot. It was very helpful since we were still making parts after we shipped the robot that would just "snap on" when we got to regionals.

I agree with the other guy that a pencil was probably more used in the design of the robot than a CAD system but the feeling I got from the team members that have worked on the team in previous years is CAD is still a valuable tool in the process of robot design.


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