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Originally posted by Harrison
I found (and I think a lot of teams have as well) that using CAD to design the bot takes FAR too long than to sketch it out on paper with basic measuments.
Unless you're doing a gearbox ro soemthing where you must be 100% accurate, CAD just seems to take far far far too long to make it really worthwhile to use it.
Agree, Disagree???
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We had around 10 people on the CAD team, and it probabaly took them 2 weeks to do everything. Then we have 7-10 people on the machining team. Another 2 weeks to build the thing and machine it.
I'm not sure if it helped any on machining. The CAD people are rather experienced though, so it was probabaly easier than drawing it. Many took drafting classes. Not to mention they also spent the weeks before the build just getting used to the program and drafting up random parts. We'd meet twice a week and they'd practice.