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PostPosted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:46 pm 
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I am looking for a few quotes regarding the benefits of good design, shop or assembly drawings.

I am also interested a few that comment about the benefits of a solid model to reduce errors, etc...

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Not famous but here it an article where I talk about this...

http://www.sdotson.com/articles/azine.pdf

It's several years old...

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"...shizit IN equals shizit OUT" :wink:

...seriously...

"Parametric Solid Modeling - Capturing Design Intent's Re-Usability"

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I can't give you reference to anything that specific, however..

an interesting quote:

"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field."


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A true craftsman is not one who doesn't make mistakes, it is one who repairs them up so well you can never know they were made.


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royourboat wrote:
a good design quote:

A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible.
- Freeman Dyson
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-The fewest original ideas would be 0 - Did Dyson mean a good engineer should just copy other's ideas? That would sound to me more like the work of a designer, not an engineer. Maybe, being a scientist himself, Dyson didn't like engineers (or someone who might say to a scientist "that's a great theory, but to actually make one would require a ton of money in tooling".


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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 4:57 am 
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I think the actual quote goes on to say "There are no prima donnas in engineering". So the quote is quite the opposite, meaning engineers base their designs on sound engineering principles, that have been proven over time to work.

Even new designs and ground breaking leaps forward in engineering can still be broken down to first principles.

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PostPosted: Fri Nov 12, 2010 7:15 pm 
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OK, I think I know what he was saying, basicaly: A Good Engineer Shouldn't Try To `Reinvent The Wheel' -As we often say here in the U.S.-.


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Yeah, or shouldn't try a square wheel at least. Well that is my take on it..

..and we also say reinvent the wheel here too ;)

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 15, 2010 7:48 pm 
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Inv_kaos wrote:

..and we also say reinvent the wheel here too ;)



Hah, for all I know, maybe you guys invented that saying. How about this one:

"A Bird In Hand Gathers No Moss" - No, wait a minute, I think it's
"A Rolling Bird Gathers No Stones" - No, that's not right, either.
How about "Don't Cross Yor Bridges Before They Hatch"
No! - Jeez, I can't seem to get anything right today! :wink:


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