This is an example of a developing technology for which I hold the very opposite opinion I do of AI.
In my last year before retirement, I was sent off for a course in Solidworks (They'd send me anywhere to get me away for a while; we didn't get on very well my last six years there.) On the one hand that course showed me how archaic an old engineer becomes at the end of a career, but at the same time how the curiosity and appreciation of good tech conceptually well-grounded was still there, unlike some other old guys I knew in that career. Oh, how I struggled with even remotely mastering the hands-on coursework yet what an appreciation I got for the potential of the whole field of 3d modelling and the beginnings of rapid-prototyping and 3d printing, me starting out in the field with a drawing board next to my desk, an HP125 with Wordstar to write on, and data logging on an Osborne. Lots of water under that bridge and a high flow-rate! (I still have a lapboard and my mechanical drawing gear. Nobody wanted that old sh!t when I retired so I still have it.)
Anyway, that is the background that lets me see something really wonderful in your first effort. Well done!


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3D print - healey36 January 4, 2026, 1:50 pm
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