<aside> 📌 This is basic CAD etiquette. Clean CAD is maintainable, iterable, and allows for collaboration. Otherwise, you will be the only person that will bother to understand your CAD.

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1. When CADing something in a part studio, CAD it where it will actually go.
   1. Do not just put it in the middle of somewhere random because “you will put it in place in the assembly.” Make it around where it will actually sit, so when you are working with the geometry of it in the sketch, you have a frame of reference of where it actually goes, instead of winging it in the middle of nowhere.
2. You don’t need two parts that are identical to each other. Just CAD it once, that’s what assemblies are for.
3. Use folders in part studios.
4. Name every sketch and part. Naming important extrudes and mates are also very nice.
   1. Sketches are 100% required. Extrudes are more organized because they (should) come right after the sketch they are extruding.
   2. Name them something actually informative. “Drivetrain Side Rail” tells me much more about what a part is used for than “Tube 2”x1”x28”.”
5. Don’t use the “Delete Part” feature, just get rid of whatever sketch/extrude is making it.
   1. If you use the delete feature, it still exists in whatever sketch or extrude made it, so what even is the point of deleting it? It’s just a band-aid “solution” for whatever mistakes you made, just go back and fix it instead.
6. Try to assign materials for every part
   1. This will help us calculate the approximate weight of robot
7. If there is a value that needs to be used multiple times and might change, use a variable
   1. Updating this variable will update all other instances of the variable
   2. May also make clear what a specific number is supposed to be
8. In a large assembly, split different parts of the mechanism up into subassemblies