Re: software?

From: <Christopher>
Date: Fri Feb 17 2006 - 23:48:00 EST

On Feb 17, 2006, at 8:43 PM, gary young wrote:

> The programs are designed to speed up the design process and yes, time
> saved is money saved on a project.

Only if people understand enough of the fundamentals to use the results properly. If you use the software as a black box without thinking critically about what you've done, the best you can hope for is the ability to make more mistakes, faster with a greater impact.

I've been in the FEA business for about 30 years. I love it and I've made a pretty good living at it, but in that 30 years I've seen a lot of hackers make a lot of really dumb-ass mistakes because they thought the software would do their thinking for them. 'Tain't so, McGee. Christopher Wright P.E. |"They couldn't hit an elephant at <a href="/group/PipingDesign/post?postID=9HMSqHu4RGWY3H2VfwW-hqTq7qq-Up6W_ArU_H6MLmqTPTj6fl47Il2X5GjDCAecxSrKJsXGPLAWiw">chrisw@skypoint.com</a> | this distance" (last words of Gen.

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

1864)
<a href="http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/">http://www.skypoint.com/~chrisw/</a> Received on Fri Feb 17 23:48:00 2006