Inventor Pro Help if Possible

[docdavies]

Well, you know, if you just do your homework a lot of your questions will be answered.

I was doing my usual web trolling for information and came upon this VEX site

http://www.vexrobotics.com/vex-edu-cad.html

Although it's VEX, it has several nice Unit presentations on CAD dealing with the problems I've been posting. Those presentations have nicely filled in a lot of the gaps I've had because I have been learning it piecemeal.

Does Autodesk have a similar curriculum for FRC?

Doc

[docdavies]

Welcome to Reality.

I was making progress and beginning to feel like I was getting some traction when it came to doing the CAD for our wiring systems.

I asked a mentor from another team what he thought of my work.....

He was polite, but mentioned I have a LOOOONG way to go.

Is there anyone reading these forums who would be willing to share one of their "professional" CAD pictures of a robot?
I'd like to get an idea if there is a light at the end of the tunnel, for getting my kids to a CAD design award in a couple of years....or...well....we're just going to get run down by the train!

[kramarczyk]

Try looking a past design award winners. You can find some on the autodesk site at
http://students.autodesk.com/?nd=first_championship

[docdavies]

Mark,

Very enlightening! The pictures were great and and the point by point description of the design process by Team 234

cyberblue234.com/inventoraward

was wonderful. I liked their logic and creative reuse of past successful technology. I see hope, and a lot of work ahead.
I can also see that I have a great deal more home work to do. Seems like every stone turned over...just leads me to a LOT more stones. But they're all interesting.

Doc

[joek]

80/20 pieces are hard to constrain, i also have problems with constraining in the slot, it appears to be that the slots are canted inward slightly, making it very difficult for constraint in inventor.

[docdavies]

Ok, in the intervening time quite a bit of progress has been made.
Now, my team and I would like to implement the Autodesk Vault for version control and to facilate communication on those days we can't get together for design/build sessions.
Has any team implemented the Vault on either a laptop or personal computer for this purpose? Is there a "tutorial" on how to do this for a local area wireless network? Since our sponsoring High School blocks access to almost all websites on school computers, we're thinking of bringing in an old "box" and just implementing a local wireless network in the robotics build room.
Suggestions or help?