How do you do basic layouts/designs

[Carlo]

The Miracle Workerz have a few days in which we all come together and brainstorm. Once we decide a basic strategy, each student is required to submit at least one way at accomplishing our strategy. Everything from manipulators to chassis to drivetrain is normally covered by the end of this session. Once we have completed these initial designs, we vote on which we think will be the most efficient at accomplishing our strategy. Once these are complete, a basic robot is modeled in Pro-E for the main robot layout. Solidworks can be used from time to time, as it is more readily available for students to use in their own homes though.

[Andrew Rudolph]

We used Rhino 3d to do all of our concept drawings, i can draw things relatively fast and with some accuaracy and scale so it works well, The first one i did took me about an hour and then that one kept being changed