CAD Best Practices: Why?

In this guide, we document best practices for Onshape CAD and design standards for FRC.

Reasons for these best practices include:

• Keeping loading times low
• Staying organized, so that making changes down the line is easier and more accessible
• Encouraging top-down design through document structure
• Making CAD resistant to breaking

Why standardize design?

• Make it easier for new designers to succeed; reduce the number of things to learn
• Make it harder to make mistakes - encourage good practice through standardization
• Reduce part cost - only invest in parts that work and last

Essentially, standardizing practices on your FRC team helps to ease the requirement of institutional knowledge by making things "just work".

Note

This is a living document.