No I don’t, although I get why you would think that, I wasnt super clear originally. It’s a bit of a circular loop of reliance. I’m saying any Joe-somebody can come up with something and build some type of prototype in their garage. They could keep refining that prototype until they build their golden prototype or sample that functions for the desired goal. An engineer would then step in and help define and refine the best geometry, manufacturing processes, materials, and tolerances it would take to build that golden sample at scale for the masses at the best possible value for the goal that widget is made to accomplish. At that point it might now take a lot of craftsmen to build the new widget to those specifications. They go hand in hand. But the line drawn is Joe-somebody is usually not going to be familiar with how to optimize draft angles for a casting process or be able to calculate loads effectively across a range of tolerances, etc… whereas the engineer might know all sorts of sheet metal design techniques but can’t bend a flat sheet 90 degrees to save their life. They are different skill sets.
The line drawn is usually anyone who can imagine a novel solution and then build it is a craftsmen. The engineer would be able to mass produce them.
Pretty sure you have that exactly backwards.
No I don’t, although I get why you would think that, I wasnt super clear originally. It’s a bit of a circular loop of reliance. I’m saying any Joe-somebody can come up with something and build some type of prototype in their garage. They could keep refining that prototype until they build their golden prototype or sample that functions for the desired goal. An engineer would then step in and help define and refine the best geometry, manufacturing processes, materials, and tolerances it would take to build that golden sample at scale for the masses at the best possible value for the goal that widget is made to accomplish. At that point it might now take a lot of craftsmen to build the new widget to those specifications. They go hand in hand. But the line drawn is Joe-somebody is usually not going to be familiar with how to optimize draft angles for a casting process or be able to calculate loads effectively across a range of tolerances, etc… whereas the engineer might know all sorts of sheet metal design techniques but can’t bend a flat sheet 90 degrees to save their life. They are different skill sets.