How long does your team plan?

[Cuog]

Originally Posted by Doug G

Coug, it's just my opinion that "planning" refers to a lot of specific benchmarks by many teams, which probably helps explain the results of the poll. Planning could be brainstorming, pencil and paper sketches, strategy, CAD/Inventor/3DS modeling, purchasing, prototyping, etc... I interpretted the question to involve all of this. I think some interpretted the question as just first few items on my list which is why there is much discussion on how much teams do during their "planning". Good question and has brought about a lot of dialogue

Ah, so it was a case of me misunderstanding you misunderstanding me.

What i was trying to ask was what planning(whatever method your team uses) and how long you spend, before starting to build the final robot.

Sorry for the confusion.