special snowflake http://www.specialsnowflake.ca :: technical design resources :: Fri, 20 Jan 2012 20:47:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 1. Systematic design http://www.specialsnowflake.ca/2012/01/systematic/ http://www.specialsnowflake.ca/2012/01/systematic/#comments Sun, 01 Jan 2012 17:00:06 +0000 colin http://www.specialsnowflake.ca/?p=848 As part of a program redesign effort in the MET (Mechanical Engineering Technologist) department (Manufacturing and Automation, at SAIT Polytechnic), I will be running a design-effort-as-demonstration.…

]]> As part of a program redesign effort in the MET (Mechanical Engineering Technologist) department (Manufacturing and Automation, at SAIT Polytechnic), I will be running a design-effort-as-demonstration. I’m planning to simultaneously explore Nigel Cross’s design advice in Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design, Pahl’s approach in Engineering Design: a Systematic Approach, and Autodesk’s Inventor (which is new to me as a soon-to-be-ex-SolidWorks-type). I’ll post the results here, in their entirety.

First: identifying the opportunity.

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