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Why Engineering Designers Are Underpaid (And What to Do About It)
Three concrete reasons keep engineering designers underpaid: weak communication, scattered focus, and no development plan. Here is a real-world IDP for plumbing design.
NOTES FROM THE FIRST LUNATIC
To the engineers who got tired of waiting and decided to build...
Here I and the next lunatics document the journey of Ascent. What we learn about BIM, Revit, Dynamo, automation, plugins, and AI as we turn ideas into the products we believe will redefine engineering's limits.
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