This year I am currently working on a book (binder) to show judges and other people at competitions. I want to show them our design process and everything about our robot. So far i was including:
-Why design is important
-Steps to designing
-Drawings of every part in our robot. (CAD 2D drawing)
-Electrical components (everything on board and motors specs)
-And season calender (estimated time schedule for FRC season)
-Iterations (will be a chart that can be filled in at any time by hand)
If this is for the judges, I would recommend reading through the different awards::rtm:: and thinking about making somethign specific to a few of the awards you are interested in. I would also have at least 1 spare copy that you can give them (if it gets huge, make it a bit more condensed). I have been told that this helps with the judging process.
The awards i am looking at winning right now are:
-Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Delphi
-Industrial Design Award Sponsored by General Motors
-Quality Award Sponsored by Motorola
I will make a few copy’s of the book to give to judges at each of our competitions (3 regional’s competitions plus champs). SO far the parts that you would read takes up a total of 2 pages. So i don’t think i will need to condense it. The prints wont be something a person is going to look at in detail, but they will still be apart of a judge copy.
I’d suggest assembly drawings, too, of how things go together. If you could include CAD-generated BoMs and cutlists, that’d be pretty impressive, as well.
Yea i am including the assembly drawings already, just didn’t put that down on the list. BoM is something i could do but im not sure what you mean by cut lists. could you explain what this is?
When our team talks about a cut list we are referring to a table that contains 4 columns. One column is material the second is length the third is the amount and the fourth is a part number. This makes it really easy when the mech team starts to assemble the part you just have some one cut all the parts and label them by part number. Then the people assembling them just look at the drawing to see how to assemble the parts together. I do not know if this is the same as what fenix is referring to.
Have you considered submitting to the Autodesk Excellence in Design Award? Much of what you are preparing can be used in Autodesk Inventor Publisher ( a free download) and creates your design process in electronic format.
Have a look at this information to see if it is of interest,
