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absolutely disagree. an engineering design document is about information retrieval, not education. It's not made to entertain or educate about new concepts, it
by serf 3y ago
absolutely disagree.
an engineering design document is about information retrieval, not education. It's not made to entertain or educate about new concepts, it's made to be terse and rigidly structured for the sake of aiding the work of the reader and to provide reliable information recall methods for those reading it.
I don't want to know what 'problems are worth attacking' when reading a design document, I want to know what tolerance criteria the hole on the left flange needs to meet.
There is more wiggle-room for artistic expression when we're talking about analytical papers like feasibility and failure analysis. It doesn't belong in the design phase. It creates confusion and ambiguity for the reader often, and those two things need not be introduced into design more than they already exist.
- Jensson 3y ago> It's not made to entertain or educate about new concepts, it's made to be terse and rigidly structured for the sake of aiding the work of the reader and to provide reliable information recall methods for those reading it. That goes for math papers as well. Both needs to be understood by juniors, both are used by experts for lookup and work.
- eternityforest 3y agoI might want to know why the hole on the left flange needs such insane tolerance though. Maybe it's not relevant in a specific version, or maybe I have an idea for how to solve the issue so it can be made cheaper, etc. Maybe it's absolutely integral to the whole application and I should stop wasting my time trying to make a printed PLA version, etc.