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Originally Posted by KenWittlief
there are engineering processes for dealing with this, listing all your concepts and strategies, and then assigning them numerical ratings for several factors. (like scoring, defense, how hard it will be to design, how hard it will be to fabricate, how reliable it will be, expensive, repairable....)
when you analize your options this way sometimes you are really surprized what the best answer comes out to be.
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This is VERY important. I realize it's getting late to do this now, but if you can, learn a formal process for selecting designs.
I found it painful for the students our first year we did this, but after seeing the results of our efforts, they couldn't wait to do our pew analysis this year.