Does CAD get respect on your team?

[JasJ002]

Inventor important to some extent. There have been plenty of times when we've saved hours of work by using Inventor. But the problem is when you make slight changes like drilling a hole here for weight, or simply throwing a part out and quickly cutting another one takes a lot less time. These quick changes put designers behind the manufacturers, and then catching up with a manufacturing team that usually has 3 or 4 times as many people on the design team it's impossible. Complete robots, including electronics, pneumatics, animations are all things that take so little time compared to Inventor. Also most teams work till the last minute, then when the robot is gone it's impossible to get measurements. All of these factors lead to the impossibility to use Inventor completely. I will say team 103 used inventor a lot. We designed every one of our prototypes, and even used it to lay out a schematic for electronics. This was due to successful communication and working along with our manufacturing guys.