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Re: Limitations too far?

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Originally Posted by EricH View Post
All I'll say is that it's happened before, back in the "Dark Ages" before alliances.
No alliances?! Those were true dark ages --shudder--

The only rules I gripe about are the stipulations on bumpers, and not even the fact that we can't extend passed them...that I can easily live with. But even as I complain when a particular design concept fails, a new design comes to mind or I find a small, simple solution to a part of the problem. Really, in all honesty, I could have cared less that these solutions existed except for the fact that the rules forced me and the CAD student to find them. The students are in a similar boat with the way the conveyor design worked out, yet they're floating with it on their own until the drive train is done. To my surprise, they're not only finding solutions, but the solutions are way better than what any of the mentors could have come up with. Without these 'restrictions', none of this would have happened.

Just wait till you get into the real world when you're on the wrong side of an ambiguous problem who's solution had no real direction to begin with. Then you will have wished someone had put restrictions in place somewhere along the line.
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