Design FTC robots in Onshape — without guessing.

A friendly, end-to-end guide for FIRST Tech Challenge teams — from CAD basics to a competitive robot.

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Learning Course Setup, then four stages from CAD basics to a full robot. 5 stages
Tutorials Step-by-step builds for common mechanisms — sorted Easy / Medium / Hard. By difficulty
Design Handbook Strategic design, hardware, power transmission, mechanisms, write-ups. 5 sections
Mechanism Examples Annotated mechanisms organized by category — see how real teams build it. 5 categories
CAD Best Practices Document setup through assembly. Habits that keep your CAD from collapsing later. 5 articles
Resources Tools, part libraries, programming references, and community links. Curated