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Re: Hints and Observations from Breakaway - Week 1

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We didn't worry about the weight at Peachtree. My opinion is that it's optional but a question to the Q&A is probably in order here. There's nothing in the rules about any one component weighing less than XX lbs so I suspect it's just there for team use.
I little history behind this one:
We have always created a pretty detailed BOM in Excel and one year FIRST asked us to give them an electronic copy of our BOM since they wanted to work on a template to give to teams. Soon after that a BOM template came out which looked almost identical to our BOM, including weights (only difference is the formatting).

So why did we have weight in our BOM? That is because a couple of years we attempted to use the BOM to track our weight as we went along. Then when we submitted the printed copy, we simply did not print the columns with the weight for every component. Keeping track of weight this way was tedious and we now don't even try to find a student willing to do this.

I guess when FIRST used our electronic version as a template, they never bothered to delete the weight columns. Maybe someone at FIRST thought it might be a good idea to leave them in, in case some teams wanted to use it only as weight tracking tool.
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Re: Hints and Observations from Breakaway - Week 1

Maybe someone should volunteer to make a better BOM template

(yeah, you know I don't want to do it)
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