How do you know when to CAD vs draw up on paper quickly

[CamFam1]

Thanks for all your guidance everyone. Please consider another dimension to the question.

If you are running short on time, when would you come to a point where you would say do it in paper and pencil and forego putting pressure on CAD so you can have a robot rather than possibly risking not having a robot?

I see how it's ideal to CAD. When do you let it go and try using paper and pencil? Have you had any experiences like this? How did it go?

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by CamFam1

Thanks for all your guidance everyone. Please consider another dimension to the question.

If you are running short on time, when would you come to a point where you would say do it in paper and pencil and forego putting pressure on CAD so you can have a robot rather than possibly risking not having a robot?

I see how it's ideal to CAD. When do you let it go and try using paper and pencil? Have you had any experiences like this? How did it go?

If you think about it, having full CAD of all the components can save the time you are losing by perhaps figuring out dimensions on paper. The fabrication process goes a lot faster, which is what Adam basically said.

We learn how to create properly dimensioned tool assisted drawings too though.

Graph paper is the shizzz.

[CamFam1]

Maybe I'm asking a different question than I should be asking.

How about this question. In which week do you like to have your CAD work completed by? What should you do if it is taking longer than you had expected?

[artdutra04]

It was only two days ago in which I finished up the CAD of the elevator and shooter on 228's robot. However, the chassis and ball intake were completed over two weeks ago. The date in which the CAD has to be done is entirely dependent on how fast you can fabricate parts and how many revisions you want to go through before you shoot the designers and build it.

Because I was slow on the last bit of the CAD, now I get to spend all my free time running parts on the CNC mill.

[Molten]

AutoCAD, the speed of hand and the accuracy of computer. This makes it where I start. When I don't have it, I'll resort to hand/Inventor. But my start is always AutoCAD.