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

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Originally Posted by Paul Copioli

Team 217 does exactly what Arthur explains happens on 228. We do everything in CAD and simultaneuosly do prototypes for critical items. If the prototypes find a particular geometry that work, then we will immediately CAD it in SolidWorks to get the manufacturing dimensions. See the attached pdf for an example of one of our assembly drawings.

$@#$@#$@#$@# Paul, Being a student on your team working on design like that must be an amazing experience....

I'm trying to work towards that with my students, but I'm probably decades away