Morgans wrote:
"Dan Luke" wrote


I blame the engineering schools. IMO, a degreed EE ought to have
experience installing electrical gear and making it work before he
graduates, and a new ME ought to have spent a couple of summers working
construction for a mechanical contractor.


And an architect should have to build houses, or something for at least a
year.

I couldn't tell you how many house plans I have built that were physically
impossible to build, as they were drawn, and I'm not talking simple typo's
or dimension mistakes, either.
Yeah, my architect once in a while says something like "builders always
say 'yeah, it's simple to DRAW'". In the "new house" we will have these
GREAT planters on pedestals going up to the front door. Looks like I'll
have to make them on site out of hypertufa because if they were cast
concrete they would probably weigh 700 lbs. :-).

Margy