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- Start the project early on. Procrastinating the design phase of the project could prove detrimental to the overall project progress since it will delay everything from manufacturing to testing.
- Sometimes it's your design. Make sure your design accounts for any unforeseeable variables. If the prototype does not work as well as the design does in CAD, there might need to be changes made to the CAD because simulation does not account for all the factors in the real world.
- Team communication is very important!
- Go the extra mile and structure your design around the goal of ultimately becoming a marketable product that people would want to purchase.
- Design your mechanism to be compact and integrated. Even for a modular system, create an integrated system of parts. Although it is not easy, it will greatly improve the appearance, usability, mechanical properties, and functionality.
- Embed tolerances into your CAD.
- Account for manufacturing accuracies
- This will save a lot of time from re-manufacturing the parts that do not fit.
- Enjoy creating!
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