From: muratlanne@gmail.com   
      
   "Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:103mgdl$87c2$2@dont-email.me...   
      
   Lots of modestly experienced and self taught manual machinists in the   
   maker crowd use layout as a sanity check.   
      
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   That makes sense if they are primarily a designer rather than a machinist. I   
   was formally an electronic technician and laboratory manager, with circuit   
   design, CAD/CAM, programming and machining on the side. I've done more   
   machining on home projects than for work.   
      
   If the function of a part is obvious to me I'll draw it with dimensions and   
   follow them, when it has multiple interactions to coordinate I may   
   alternately redesign and machine what I'm sure of. I have several   
   preliminary versions of the satellite laser link hardware that separately   
   addressed its mechanical, electrical or optical requirements. Since I didn't   
   have a relevant engineering degree I was much more convincing when I showed   
   them a neatly machined sample of what I intended than when I described or   
   sketched it. The project manager brought me in as an electronic tech and   
   then gave me a free hand when he found I could also create hardware to his   
   specs. One engineer said my black-painted optical work looked like the parts   
   of a Norden bombsight.   
      
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