Field Issues

[ChrisH]

Originally Posted by Vikesrock

Regarding the field drawings, many of us have been wondering for the last few years why FIRST won't just publish the CAD in some standard format, ocassionally aloud to the GDC or other FIRST officials. With Autodesk, PTC and Solidworks all sponsoring FIRST, it seems like it would make a lot of sense to publish CAD in addition to the drawings.

This has long been one of my pet peaves with FIRST. I am a Tool Designer for a major aerospace company. Every drawing I produce contains the following General Note: "Analyze <your CAD system here> model for all non-critical dimensions and information not shown" I have never gotten a good explanation for why the models of the field are not released. It would surely help with finding those dimensions FIRST did not think were critical enough to add to the drawing. The alternative I have used for severl years is to get the .pdfs and build my own models based on the drawings.

ChrisH