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Originally Posted by Jamie Kalb
It's great to see your designs come to life, isn't it? The first time's particularly exciting. I remember my first time, in the 2008 offseason. I designed a fancy two-axis bearing block in Solidworks, made a drawing, then watched our machinist mill it out of a block of aluminum. That convinced me that I wanted to continue with design, CAD in particular.
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Well, I've designed other things before, but what made this so special is that we designed the gearbox from scratch. We used calculations to determine what we would need and determined the best way to put all those things together. The application of things I had learned in school is what was particularly fascinating. It's just really awesome to see a real-world application for all the number crunching that is done in math and science classrooms.