Welcome to FRCDesign.org
FRCDesign.org is a comprehensive learning guide and technical reference for FRC design using Onshape.
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Website Feature Guide
Explains the main features of the website. Recommended to go through before the learning course.
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Learning Course
A guided curriculum through learning Onshape applied to robot design fundamentals. Looking to learn FRC robot design and CAD skills? Start here.
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Design Handbook
Dives into the concepts necessary in order to design a competitive robot. Unlike the learning course, this is primarily a reference wiki.
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Mechanism Examples
Unlike other mechanism example collections, these are hand picked for specific concepts with detailed breakdowns behind each design.
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CAD Best Practices
A reference for best practices to follow when you're modeling a robot in Onshape.
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Other Resources
Besides the other content on the website, we have a nice collection of resources (e.g. featurescripts and models).
What is FRCDesign.org?
- FRCDesign.org is not just a resource collection. Though it includes many resources, almost all of the website's content has been written specifically for the website to align with our goals.
- Everything is taught from a competitive focus. Designing competitive robots helps inspire students and teach both engineering skills and life skills. It's also generally more fun when the robot performs well instead of breaking.
- We don't try to teach everything. The learning course is built around teaching a single CAD software (Onshape), and we encourage a specific design style which is optimized for the majority of mid-resource teams.
- We try to include the small details that most guides forget. The concept of an "arm" is almost ubiquitous, but the concepts behind designing a pivot that works every match and never breaks? That's not so much common knowledge and much more important.
- Design practices are important! We try to document and teach the best practices possible so you can design faster during the season.
Who is FRCDesign.org?
FRCDesign.org is the culmination of hundreds of hours of work between a group of FIRST students, alumni, and mentors from teams all over the world.
Discord
The most effective tool for learning design is getting feedback and learning from others. Join the Discord for design reviews, design challenges, and events.
