Does CAD get respect on your team?

[sburro]

Originally Posted by Henry Anthony

I am wondering if your team considers CAD as an important part of the competition or is there little interest in it?

CAD is theonly way to go for 663. Without CAD, your machinist might get mad if you need to add a hole here or there. It is much easier to do when teh part is already dialed in. CAD (solidworks in our case) also helps our team determine how much we weigh. (sually light be 5 lbs). I believe that any project that involves machining should be done in CAD. You willl find out that a "real" engineer is required to build their project in CAD BEFORE it hits the machine shop. There is no such thing as a drill.