I've been thinking along those lines: "Its not scrap... its a concept car and that clay model"

Surely that exotic metals machine shop did a test run with cheap dummy material and then threw it in the scrap bin before committing a whole lot of decimal places worth of the real materials to that process, right?

Isn't that why we have rapid prototype machines? Spit out a plastic widget and make sure it fits and works as expected before even thinking about spending 6 digits on tooling the steel parts.

One problem that I've noticed happens a lot, is that in software that SHOULD be pre-planned scrap turns into the final product anyways. Who is willing to spend the time to make a practice run, put the prototype in a wind tunnel, and then go back and rewrite the real application with experience.

When hardware is involved, nobody bats an eye at mockups and functional prototypes that are meant to be thrown out, and actually ARE disposed of.

In reply to Re^2: "Bah! Scrumbug!" (Lessons from the scrap-bin) by SuicideJunkie
in thread "Bah! Scrumbug!" (Lessons from the scrap-bin) by locked_user sundialsvc4

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