Re: Clash Detection

From: <Christopher>
Date: Sun Apr 24 2005 - 13:59:00 EDT

On Apr 24, 2005, at 12:38 PM, Paul Bowers wrote:

> "Clash or interference detection is a necessary task in 3D design and
> one of its big values".

That's marketing bullshit. You can have the same problems with interference using a CAD package if the operator doesn't know his job. The easiest thing in the world is for some CAD monkey to lay out something which can't be assembled because doesn't understand fabrication or the field circumstances.

I bet the ad copy guy who wrote it probably hasn't the foggiest about how wretched as-builts of existing construction can be, even in nuke plants which are supposed to be so precisely engineered. Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=lxq4BFwAv8e1DJ1RG49VKV_2-HvHpBsRpz-5OKRCf6fX4I39-TeTdQlZTtCx48oC2-pNHSLkP_bQxg">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

.......................................| John Sedgwick, Spotsylvania

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<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Sun Apr 24 13:59:00 2005