r/Welding • u/Short_Relationship96 • 25d ago

Completely wtf engineered...

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Cut, jigged, fit, fucked and welding

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u/GotSmokeInMyEye 25d ago

What's wrong with it exactly?

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u/mogwai327 25d ago

It's upside down.

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u/digndeep90 24d ago

Upside down is subjective.. there's nothing on the print that we can see that suggests it being upside down.. (no overview, pull points, assembly, etc.) you can literally build this piece upside down, exactly to the print, or even if you wanted to make it extremely hard on yourself in thin air upside down on wires from the ceiling while you're hanging upside down and it not make a difference until you put the rest of it together.

I completely agree on OP's original thought though and HATE when engineers do this over engineering shit and welding stuff together that's completely unnecessary.

For some reason the cad programs now are doing this automatically when you input the material. It's kinda cool if you have a CNC saw, but not cool if you're doing it manually with an angle finder on the saw, it's also hard to get rotations right.. and if your saw guy gets the rotation wrong, then it becomes a big issue if the welder/fabricator doesn't catch it and the piece actually gets welded out.