I was just wondering how many teams use Pro-Engineer when they are designing parts for there robot. My team used to use a combination of Inventor and Pro-E but now we have completely shifted to Pro-E, What about your teams?
P.S If you are on my team (151) Dont make any stupid remarks about how good you are… Thanks
Our sponsor, Alliant Techsystems, uses Pro/E for all their stuff so we kinda end up using it too. I use Pro/Desktop since my school has a virtually unlimited number of licenses that they just hand out to students in the CAD class. It’s fully compatible with Pro/E, so I can still exchange designs back and forth with those done on the engineers’ computers.
Team 356 uses Pro/engineer. One of our design engineers uses Inventor. Makes life difficult when it comes to swapping designs back and forth.
We try to generate a full up assembly of the entire robot (or as much as we can get done in a couple of weeks) before building anything.
In the past two years, we have generated a full assembly of the entire robot after the build phase. Amazingly, it looks just like the real thing!
Andrew
Team 356
How 'bout this for inefficiency: I’m using ProE (at work), I export it to STEP for 2 other designers who are working in Unigraphics at their office and for the students who are doing the animation, I export to AutoCAD where I dimension it for drawings for our machine shop, and somewhere in there is our gearbox designer in Connecticut using a low cost CAD package on his PC at home which he sends to us in dxf format to build solid models for integration.
I think I’ll go back to my drafting board and T-Square