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Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
Let's just say the mentors <3 us.
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Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
1251 uses Inventor and teaches it to our younger students, because through the two years we have really used CAD as a team it has proved to be a wonderful thing for us. We also use CAM and think that computer aided anything is good. We wanted to submit an inventor award this year but due to some poor Inventor material specifications and not paying attention we ended up overweight which prompted a lot of lat minute design changes which killed the Inventor award submission idea, were definitely going to use CAD next year and plan on submitting for the Inventor award.
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Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
On our team CAD gets a lot of respect, but barely anyone knows how to use it.
This was the first year in quite some time that our team designed the entire robot in CAD. The funny thing was... well... we.... errr... designed the robot after we built it... yeah... The reason? We wanted to try out for the Autodesk Inventor award and also hoped to put the drawings in our publication (if we won it). This may sound silly but you wouldn't believe how much I learned from this project. If you really want to learn Inventor sit down and try to CAD something that is already built (also keep a pillow handy to punch when you get frustrated ).Check out the bot! http://www.team100.org/about/autodesk/robot/robot.php |
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Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
Let's put it this way: CAD should be an important par tof your team.
Otherwise, you are missing out on a significant part of the modern engineering cyle. Can a FIRST robot be designed without it? Absolutely. Should it be designed without it? Not if one of your goals is to expose your students to the entire realm of engineering. Team 217 places a priority on CAD. Specifically, we teach our students how to use Solidworks and then we design 95% of the robot in SW prior to building anything. In most cases we give some of our sponsors the solid model and they build the part from the student designed model with no drawing. All of our sheet metal is designed this way. So, yes, our CAD gets respect. |
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nothing gets built without CADs
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Well not really. We have several hurdles to jump before it would get used to design the robot. Good tech support from the school (they say the computers are too fast to run inventor and we can't install software without their permission). Several students that would want to learn it from just books and on line tutorials (people like to be taught by a real live person). And finally nobody has a problem with the way we do things now, which is on the chalk board, with verbal descriptions and discussions (why fix something that is not broken)
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Re: Does CAD get respect on your team?
k so my team just got some really $@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@#$@# news.
Our CIMS class was doing field trips to CAR, a manufacturing company that mass produces parts are designed for the automotive industry mostly. They said that any parts that we can fully dimension and produce on a CAD system and hand to them theyll make it for us free or extremely ceap of cost. It just goes to show how much more CAD is becoming usefull, because now we can use ou models to make parts. Its great |
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