I’ve been trying to make our robot on solidworks and the process is long and difficult. I was wondering if anyone had tips or tricks that would help ease and speed up the process of mating the odd shaped vex parts. Such as C-Channel with a stand-off and a screw.
Any help is appreciated!
Most teams use inventor because the screw holes are all set up as imates and can be mated very simply.
Does solidworks have a similar feature that requires prep work but makes building far easier?
This feature does look very useful when putting together tedious objects, unfortunately I was not able to find such a feature in Solidworks. I may have to try using inventor because of this. If I come across anything in Solidworks I will be sure to post it.
Thanks for the suggestion!
I have a question on this, how do you use mates in inventor or is there a place where I can learn about them? I have been trying to CAD some prototypes and it is extremely slow and tedious
-thanks
I guess the CAD forum has gone. Here are some posts I made about iMates back in 2012.
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If you use this inventor library all the imates are created on all the parts.
http://botsnstuff.com/wiki/24CAD2013
Thanks, I hadn’t come across these! Very helpful!
Thanks this will help a lot 
Also you can try this tutorials from the Vex Curriculum. Very helpful!!!