Unlike most advents, CADvent will celebrate the 25 days until kickoff by sending out daily CAD challenges. In the past couple years a student on our team ran a CADvent to help prepare the team for the season. Because of its success, I’ve decided to continue the tradition by running it this year with the help of some other members of our team. The CADvents will increase in difficulty as we get closer to kickoff and will vary between flat, solid, and sheet metal, along with a few other types of parts. Feel free to share CADvent with your teams as it is a good way to prepare for the season.
If you see a missing dimension please let me know so I can update the drawings accordingly. All the parts I used in this CADvent are designed by a member of our team.
Assumptions for all drawings:
If it looks like it should be colinear, concentric, parallel, vertical, horizontal, tangent, or equal in size, it probably is unless otherwise stated.
Today is the first day of CADvent. The first piece is a simple dice. These parts will get harder as time goes on.
Wow! I’ve actually been running through last year’s CADvent with my team for the past few weeks as part of design training. So far it’s been good practice, so it will be great to have even more parts to work on.
Thank you so much to you and your teammates for providing this resource!
Loved following along last year with my students, will be encouraging them to practice with this again this year.
Last year I challenged myself to use the mobile version of Onshape to design the parts, this year I’m going to be doing them in both Onshape and Inventor, to familiarize myself more with Inventor so I can better assist my students (who primarily use Inventor for robot stuff).
