Mechanical Engineering Slander - Part 1 

Autodesk inventor pro 😎

You do know that SOLIDWORKS autosaves everything, right?

@@mage3690 I set auto save to 1 minute lmao

NotsoSolidworks

Solidworks is not even the worst CAD Software - Catia is the worst.

When he showed the laminar flow meme i started convulsing😂

@@tadejloncar man's on smoke! I love it

Aviation Engineering student: We don't do that here

Mech engineering students when all they do is neglect air resistance but are still more employable than aerospace engineers

Hi. I want to become a mechanical engineer and wanted to know, do mechanical engineers do anything physical like building/testing their stuff?

Fr tho

forbidden technique

I am there too, but oh heaven, never i am the one that calculate it

See those 4 cars over there? A mechanical engineer would see one car moving in the x axis

Where are you doing civil engineering from?

Any suggestions on how?

@@yelectric1893 they should consider some space for welders to actually weld (space for torches or stick electrodes and if applicable, post-welding heat treatment solutions). Impossible designs also include welding vastly dissimilar base materials. Once I have been given a special case centrifugal pump impeller with cast iron back plate and stainless steel blades. They were curious why are the blades breaking off by themselves :D

@@marek465 I see. Knowing the material interactions and stuff is just plain key. Also space for electrodes, didn’t think of that actually lol. Getting into a tight corner will be tough. I just got a job at a design gig right now and I don’t really know what my things do, or how they’re made after me, but I have these arbitrary rules I zealously follow. I’ve got to get ontop of things to not screw up :/ .

@@yelectric1893 without any prior experience in manufacturing and assembly, you learn these things by being yelled at by people who actually make your designs :) In my early years, this was often the case for me aswell :) You learn things best by doing things wrong. Just dont do them wrong enough to get fired :D

@@yelectric1893 The easiest is just to consider tolerances. If you make a product that requires extremely tight tolerances, it’s going to be a pain (and expensive) to manufacture. The big thing, though, is to just learn the basics of the ways you can manufacture stuff (molds, machining, additive manufacturing, etc), then in your day to day life try to figure out how various things were probably manufactured. You’ll start noticing patterns and eventually get a handle on what’s straightforward to manufacture and what’s going to require unique, expensive methods to manufacture. Finally, note that additive manufacturing is really changing the game. It’s often still expensive and limited in what materials you can work with, but technology is advancing rapidly.

We take it into consideration in aerospace engineering. We even have pretty complex diagrams describing how drag changes with several factors.

Your KSP image vouchs about it :D

*Free Bird starts playing*

​@@Admiral45-10and of course CFD :D

If you enjoy mechanical and want to pivot from software while keeping the software experience relevant, look into using or writing simulation software like FEA/CFD (ANSYS, STAR CCM+, Altair, OpenFOAM, COMSOL, etc). There are a lot of other ways to apply software to mechanical stuff too, like CNC machines, manufacturing automation, and manufacturing data gathering and analysis.

@@NorthernHurricane7 Hmm, I will look into it, bit in my country this is unheard of. Besides, I have other time sucking responsibilities. Maybe some day, when I'm old in my garden. 🤣

has software been fun for u?

Software is and will become a much bigger part of mechanical engineering. How often do machines these day have some form of digital interface? You could really get ahead of other mechanical and/or electrical engineers

Best of luck brother

@@stephan2796 oh hey, fellow delft aero lol

@@stephan2796 same in my case, but ME taking thw jobs is still true

@@terrorbilly3722 to what extent? I wanna work in aerospace but am not sure if i should master in mechanical or aerospace I've been inkling further towards mechanical because of how wide it is and that it's tough to get jobs as an aerospace engineer...but do all the mechies really take away aerospace jobs?

@stephan2796 I'm actually thinking of applying to TU delft. I'm from the UK. Any thoughts?

@@euancampbell3485 as an Aero Engineer in the UK, go! Flee this place! Seriously UK Eng wages are an absolute embarrassment and its unlikely to get better soon

I think a truly good mechanical eenginer has to get some time doing the hard work of a welder and machinist in a workship to know how things work.

@@mmh5419 don’t forget the people who have to assemble the design. As someone who worked as a machinist, welder, and currently machine assembler at a automation company. There’s are tons of mistakes that aren’t caught until you assemble the parts together. Some days I spend half my day telling engineers how they screwed up and how they need to fix it.

@@joshuahuman1 Technicians can't stand engineers. A good engineer will iterate through the entire process of assembling the product he's designing until it becomes frictionless (to assemble and maintain, of course; otherwise, we get the flying washing machine. Lol). This is why R&D and prototyping takes so long.

@@joshuahuman1 true

In my university, ME students have the option to go to the technical school and learn how to turn, mill and weld

Sometimes autosave is reason why it crashes lmao. When you’re in a large assembly and it autosaves mid sketch 😂😂

aren't there autosave bugs where it can crash if you have design tables open or something, and it decides to autosave

@@gokiburi-chan4255 lol, yeah

@@golf398 either you're capping, or you haven't used it enough lmao.

@@golf398 let's hope you didn't just jinx yourself 😂

Work is much easier when you're friends with the shop floor.

@@NorthernHurricane7 I work as an MFE at a decent sized plant. The best thing I've done there was make friends with the guys in the shop.

You can run a CNC lathe but not a manual one? Man, I'd love to have a lathe, and learn how to actually use it. Manual all the way. CNC for production at scale though, for sure.

wish i did trades instead of ME at uni sometimes. O Well

So you’re a true Mechanical Engineering!

What college did you go to? I'm curious.

@@NorthernHurricane7 I went to Ghent university

Seems excessive. You're there to learn, after all.

What if it wasnt impossible but you just sucked too much to build it.

@@chestnut4860 people like you are the reason engineers have a reputation of being arrogant dickheads.

how true is that bruh cause aerospace is one of my main choices for majors going into college 😭

@@mj-zo4et same ;-;

Bro you iitian?

@@harshitsingh4375 no, i am trying for it

@@mj-zo4et it’s very true, mechanical and aerospace has a lot of overlap and mechanical engineers are generally more flexible

I do also, however, plan to get jobs in aerospace with my mechanical degree someday >:)

Yeah, I laughed at that one too, I think it is a puzzle made by Make Anything. As to the limitations machinists and welders have: I am used to designing for 3D Printing and luckily have already looked into the ways to design easy to manufacture metal parts because otherwise, boy would the machinists either have killed me or started to cry or both

Damm

As a similar but different major... WHAT THE FUCK!?

seems easy

@@diogopereira4639 if you know anatomy in great detail, it does make the problem a lot simpler. But easy it is not. Try this problem at 90 degrees alone on your own time to see how in depth it gets.

@@sonofruss6867 lol I was kidding man seems hard af

Best of luck to you wholeheartedly, but the only people I know with creative writing degrees both work in fast food service.

@@LoneFifteen thanks, I think :) I have always admired stem majors but I am happy to have been a creative writing major (I graduated in May). Sure, job and real life and all that, but I really value what I've learned in my classes. I wouldn't have changed my major if I had a chance. :)

@@helena8465 that's good to hear. I've always enjoyed writing, I wasn't trying to be mocking. Wish the career prospects were better or I might have gone for one myself. As it stands I'm in my third year of engineering and barely have any time to do so, best of luck to you.

@@LoneFifteen I wish you fortitude and strength as you go through school! It's not an easy endeavor to get a degree, but you're close to finishing!

creative writing isnt even a real degree- from a STEM major

There’s a circle of hell where you have to design a plane with solidworks and it will crash on random intervals

I will never understand why solidworks is so inconsistent and weird

I beat my head on the desk so much trying to use SolidWorks in the computer labs at Florida International University. Finally I bought a student license and downloaded it on my laptop and never looked back. Smooth as butter!

It's the same software, so why not?

I don't hate it, I'm disappointed in Dassault's inability to gradually improve it in line with the expectations that come with professional level products. It is amazing software that can get you 90% of the way even with project goals it isn't suited for. It has loads of free online documentation, videos, and large user community. SolidWorks should be head and shoulders above the competition, but feels like it is held back by corporate disinterest and years of technical debt. Similarly, Autodesk (and Adobe, for more graphically focused work) have professional software that was great many years ago that seems to be increasingly neglected in improvement despite having massive user bases.

@@NorthernHurricane7 Very true. Solidworks is so much better and more capable than most CAD software I've used, but it clearly has some issues under the hood. Unfortunately, it seems that that kind of bugginess has just become the standard for professional grade software these days. I was messing with Ansys for the first time recently, and it's insane to me how buggy it is.

I love SW more than autodesk inventor

That's the plan

But which is heavier, a kilogram of steel or a kilogram of feathers?

Aren't they generally interchangeable, apart from where the amount of matter in an object is important?

@Phobos Deimos Well, I did assume we were staying on earth. lol Weight is the representation of the amount of mass in an object under any given gravitational force, which I believe could be safely ignored when measurements are taken in the same location and dealing exclusively in ratios, for general purpose measuring. I mean, we've been doing it for millennia. But I would, of course, take care to take the proper mass measurement if I were doing anything chemically precise.

@@NorthernHurricane7 obviously feathers

And I was just lamenting about how everything is more expensive there. At least of the things I've been interested in which they carry.

Look up what a McMaster Carr bible is.

I would like to draw attention to this comment.

How's it going

Oh boy, I just LOVE simulink.

integration of manufacturing & supply chains

Same here bro, we're in for a long ride.

Start on python too.

Bro they meant in an actual job. You won't touch any of that and you'll live off excel

@@moissesmartin5037 I look forward to learning how to do meshing, computational fluid dynamics, Fourier analysis, and half the other stuff I do with excel lol. Concept matrices and cost comparisons and some other stuff I get doing using a spreadsheet, but so much of the stuff I work on it makes no sense to do that way. Some of my past classes the prof would have us use excel for optimization of some design (steam powerplant for example), but really it just felt like a clunky workaround to do that instead of just writing a short script that could do the same thing.

I heard Matlab only exists in schools. Stupid how you have to learn this whole software suite that you'll never actually use.

@@RAndrewNeal Yah, that's why I've been using more Python and other coding languages lately. Most of the stuff I've used Matlab for I can do just as well in Python, and anyone with a computer (that's not a dinosaur at least) can use Python for free. Matlab on the other hand I'll probably lose access to in a year and the licenses are stupid expensive.

@@epicspacetroll1399 What exactly does Matlab do? I do electronics engineering, but learned entirely without formal education, and I've never used a computer to help me in circuit design unless it was acting as test equipment (audio spectrum analyzer, etc.) or a calculator.

The fact that cars and planes work at all is incredible.

This equation ain’t leaving till the day u graduate college 😂

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@@ryanryan997 Thx