pic: When an 8 wheel drive and a swerve drive love each other veeeerry much...

[JamesTerm]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

The measure of someone's design should not be in the tools that they use, but the thought behind it.

Man that is so true... this applies in the music world for sure. (Any musicians out there?)

The C64 and Amiga 500... got me where I am today.

[R1ffSurf3r]

Originally Posted by JamesTerm

Man that is so true... this applies in the music world for sure. (Any musicians out there?)

The C64 and Amiga 500... got me where I am today.

I'm lazy I use Reason

[Marc S.]

Originally Posted by R1ffSurf3r

I'm lazy I use Reason

You mean you use REASON!

(musician)

[Katie_UPS]

Not to belittle your beastly machine, but what is the advantage of making an eight wheel drive?

Did you make it to flex your CADing muscles (a legitimate reason) or because you think there is a competitive advantage to it?

(I know 1625 made their six wheel swerve, but that was because they didn't have the programming capabilities for a fully independent four wheel swerve that could do everything they needed it to do...)

[Peter Matteson]

Originally Posted by Greg Needel

The measure of someone's design should not be in the tools that they use, but the thought behind it.




Also If you don't know pro-e then you should learn it, as limiting yourself to a single CAD package can also limit the jobs which you will be qualified when you graduate. Different industries have different software requirements and choose their software accordingly. While you have the opportunity to get free versions of all the major players through FIRST it doesn't hurt to go play with them.

What Greg said is absolutely correct.

The corporation I work for uses Pro/E, Unigraphics and Catia among other programs depending on what division you work at. It takes time to assimilate to all of these but the basics commands are generally similar.

FYI Pro/E is super easy to use compared to a lot of other CAD packages after using half a dozen systems I still think it's the most intuitive to a mechanical engineer. Ever use UG/NX now that one still drives me nuts?

[AlexD744]

Files are still on KSC computer? I can imagine this popping up as a Mars rover design in a few years.

And when the whole world wonders why it's pink, we'll know hahaha.