What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Chinese Mold Maker

Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by RetroTechie on Monday October 09, 2023 @05:56AM (#37818729)

So an industrial design product is more like the houses you see on the "Grand Designs" TV show.

In a way it's like forking a software project: the more you deviate from what's done before, the more 'pain' you'll be in.

What's done before can be re-done by any competent builder.

But beyond that, you'll need expertise in different fields, to fit parts of a design together in new ways.

No expertise -> project will fail, or be extremely 'painful' (like: costly, time-consuming, many iterations, result isn't what you wanted, etc).

Enough expertise -> steps in new territory might be uncomfortable or include some mistakes, but overall you'd know where you're at, where you're going & have realistic expectations.

So yeah - nothing wrong with getting some expert help when entering new territory.

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Re:What We Learned Making a Plastic Injection Mold with a Ch... by derefr on Monday October 09, 2023 @12:48PM (#37822328)

> What's done before can be re-done by any competent builder.

That assumes part availability, though. There were kit-built octagon-shaped homes in the 1800s; but good luck asking a builder to build you one today.

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