who here uses autocadd to design their robot if not everyone

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Posted by michael ciavaglia.

Engineer on team #47, Chief Delphi, from Pontiac Central High School and Delphi Interior Systems.

Posted on 1/28/2000 4:12 AM MST


In Reply to: Re: We use Unigraphics posted by Samuel Lindhorst on 1/27/2000 8:37 PM MST:



It doesn't matter what CAD program is used. Designing your robot in CAD is definitely an advantage. We have adhered to 'getting it in the tube' much more this year and so far it has eliminated alot of concerns and questions.

The positive aspects are too many to list, but the biggest is the ability to get everyone on the same page in the design process. Also, with three or four sub teams there are three or four teams using the same space. CAD gives us the ability to marry the chassis and swerve teams together. Did I say swerve team? Well, that was just an example from a past years robot!?! So in past years we needed to rotate the wheel around and check for interference with the chassis. Being able to do this in CAD is much more forgiving than having parts in hand and trying to figure out how we will modify the chassis to get this feature.

Finally, CAD is not necessary when building a robot. But this year seems to be a little smoother (SO FAR, THERE IS STILL FOUR AND A HALF WEEKS LEFT) because we have modelled about 90% of the robot in CAD.

Mike C.