The Autodesk Top Five

[Robert Thacker-]

Hey, does anyone know when the top five are suppose to be announced? I know that FIRST is saying something like two weeks before nationals, but that's a little vague. Anyone know for sure?

[neslo89]

They will be announcing the top five entries of the Autodesk Inventor Award this year for all teams to vote for the best entry on the FIRSTbase site.

I have also heard two weeks before the nationals...nothing more specific than that as far as I know.

[pmax]

We are in the middle of the judging process now, and hope to make an announcement in the near future. My apologies I can not be more specific at this moment.

We have over 91 entries, and the competition is fierce this year. Great work everyone!

-Pete
Inventor Award Coordinator

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by pmax

We have over 91 entries, and the competition is fierce this year. Great work everyone!

-Pete
Inventor Award Coordinator

YaY

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by pmax

We are in the middle of the judging process now, and hope to make an announcement in the near future. My apologies I can not be more specific at this moment.

We have over 91 entries, and the competition is fierce this year. Great work everyone!

-Pete
Inventor Award Coordinator

91 out of 1300+ teams?
I thought the AVA was underepresented.
How dissapointing and perhaps a good indicator of this.
It would be interesting to see the collective record of the 91 teams who entered (and see how much larger their trophy case has gotten) because they used CAD to assist in designing their robot. A tool that was available to all teams! Not just the rich HAVES.

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

91 out of 1300+ teams?
I thought the AVA was underepresented.
How dissapointing and perhaps a good indicator of this.
It would be interesting to see the collective record of the 91 teams who entered (and see how much larger their trophy case has gotten) because they used CAD to assist in designing their robot. A tool that was available to all teams! Not just the rich HAVES.

so...why aren't teams participating?
any ideas?

[Alex Cormier]

Originally Posted by JaneYoung

so...why aren't teams participating?
any ideas?

Lack of know how, amount of time, skill? I think all have a reason for the amount of teams who don't submit. I'm sure there are many teams who use it to make stuff for the robot but don't submit.... hopefully.

[AndyB]

Originally Posted by Alex Cormier

Lack of know how, amount of time, skill? I think all have a reason for the amount of teams who don't submit. I'm sure there are many teams who use it to make stuff for the robot but don't submit.... hopefully.

This is what we did. We have a full robot modeled in Inventor, but we also used some Solidworks in it, which basically would throw us out of the running.

Also, I am the only person on our team that does drafting but I also run the website, do mechanical, and fund raising, so it becomes difficult to find time to submit. We did last year.

[Rohith Surampudi]

On Behalf of Team 75 id like to congratulate and commend teams 103, 342, 871, 1156 on their magnificent work on their Inventor submissions this year, your sites and models look amazing



on a side note...the link to 75's website is still broken, the proper URL is below
http://www.roboraiders.com/showcase/index.php

[negfrequency]

Yes, idl like to second that last statement and congradulate the top 5 on their outstanding models. I am very happy with the exponential growth of people using CAD as their developement tool in FRC. Professionalism is showing more and more.

I would also like to remind everyone about the Autodesk stand that will be in atlanta for any teams who want to persue it next year. They have tutorials and at the end of all of them will supply free one year software to anyone who listens in 3ds max or autodesk inventor. (by the time this expires, the next season wll have started and oyu will have Inventor 12 anyway). I strongly recomment this if you want to take a break from the bots

[neslo89]

Originally Posted by Rohith Surampudi

On Behalf of Team 75 id like to congratulate and commend teams 103, 342, 871, 1156 on their magnificent work on their Inventor submissions this year, your sites and models look amazing



on a side note...the link to 75's website is still broken, the proper URL is below
http://www.roboraiders.com/showcase/index.php

Thank you and congratulations to your team for also making the top 5. I would also like to remind everyone to please vote for the Autodesk Inventor Award as well as the Autodesk Visualization Award on http://firstbase.autodesk.com/. I know that our team put in countless hours into our entry as I'm sure every other team did. Take time to look at the entries and vote for the teams that you think most deserve the award.

Here is the link to Team 871's entry

Once again congrats to all teams that made it this far in the competition...hope to see you all in Atlanta

[Daniel Brim]

Originally Posted by Koko Ed

91 out of 1300+ teams?
I thought the AVA was underepresented.
How dissapointing and perhaps a good indicator of this.
It would be interesting to see the collective record of the 91 teams who entered (and see how much larger their trophy case has gotten) because they used CAD to assist in designing their robot. A tool that was available to all teams! Not just the rich HAVES.

Keep in mind that this is way up from just 57 entries two years ago, if I remember correctly.

Also, not all teams that use CAD submitted for the award. Teams use other software, or didn't see fit to submit for the award (such as 125).

[JaneYoung]

Originally Posted by Daniel Brim

Also, not all teams that use CAD submitted for the award. Teams use other software, or didn't see fit to submit for the award (such as 125).

Would it be worthwhile to put a poll in the General forum and ask for teams to post why or who not?

[Guy Davidson]

I know we used Solidworks and didn't want to move to Inventor in the middle of the season. Maybe next year.

[Lil' Lavery]

This is 116s first year submitting, but we have used it (and some other software) in the past without submitting for the award. Many other teams use AutoCAD, Solidworks, and other software.