dr_gallup
Moderator
Boy does this guy have anger management issues! I've designed fuel injection systems that are running all around the world in BMWs, Jags, SAABs, Vettes, etc. Safety & emmissions critical components, not pastel cell phones. Obviously he has never worked in the automotive industry. Drawings and specifications are the only deliverables a design engineer produces and are legal contracts. Screw it up & your company could be sued or worse, people die. All the part definition between our company, suppliers and customers is in drawings or specs. Only the plastic parts get sent as CAD files, but there are still detailed drawings with every dimension necessary to create the part supplied.BigJoe said:"First of all, the guy is a f** for trying to modify the part (noticed I said "part") in a drawing. Lame. You never modify a part in the drawing. The drawing is the LEAST critical aspect. All tooling is created from the solid model. Therefore, you modify from the solid model. Modifying a drawing tells me that he has never designed any parts and is just a drafter.
"Capturing design intent is a f**king myth. When you design something, between ID changes and everything in between the design intent literally changes about 10
times. This is fact from all of my projects starting from scratch to finish. You'd have to be a dickhead to go back and redefine all the features to show design intent. And for what benefit? So you can do "show dims"? Haha. That's a waste of f**king time right there. Just like how you guys dimension every f**king feature. WASTE OF TIME. The
only thing that matters is that the model regenerates cleanly and makes logical sense if someone were to try and modify it.
"Model cleanly and do drawings with only CTF dims. DONE!"
People, please try to keep things in perspective. We are discussing design philosophy, not religion. If you can't/won't/don't want to show a part dimension then make a drawing dimension. The sun will still rise tomorrow.