Does CAD get respect on your team?

[FourPenguins]

Originally Posted by 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

I definitely agree here. On MORT, we design a lot of our parts in CAD. (With the exception of our frame which was drawn out and mocked up entirely using cardboard.) We have electrical diagrams, CAD files of any parts that have detailed machining (mostly so we can CNC) and I think that this year it really got out to the masses as both the end effectors and drivetrain teams used CAD people and software to help their design process.
On the otherhand, quick fixes (weight holes, corner rounding, last-minute changes) are done without design work in advance, leaving the CAD team to walk into the shop everyday to ask "What did you change today?"