[FTC]: What should I know about CAD (via Pro/E) for FTC?

[NalaTI]

Originally Posted by Molten

I may be missing the point, but I'm not seeing the logic here. Wouldn't it be more helpful to know how to make parts from scratch then how to modify them? I'm sure it varies which way is easier, but for most simple parts it will be easier to make from scratch. As far as time needed, the modifying may be quicker but making parts from scratch is much easier to learn to do.

There's no real difference in the learning aspect. If you learn how to make them, you've also learned how to modify them.

In our case, we modified some, and some we re-made. Some parts we made into families (so they could be replaced without doing a ton of work), some parts we learned about flexibility (shortening or adjusting dimensions of individual pieces in an assembly).

By the way, some of the parts in the standard library have the wrong dimensions (just slightly wrong, but too many "almost's" and it becomes a "not quite") -- I'd recommend that you watch closely for that as you look at mod'ing and creating.

As Tecchhexium mentioned, our CAD library of the parts that we re-built is located at: http://technoguards.org/CAD_Library