"Deidre L. Calarco" wrote:
>
> I was thinking in terms of a structural design
> plug-in for a CAD program. But, yeah, it's probably way out of reach. It's
> pretty much just a fantasy at this point - not a realistic thing to actually
> try.
So start it. Fiddle with the design, fiddle with what you know you'll want.
Talk to someone who's run open source projects. Farm out what you /know/
you won't be able to do yourself, and do the rest.
There's /always/ people around - people like Dancer - who love wrapping
their head around the most experimental, most technical aspects of a
program.
Design the perfect-for-you structural engineering program. Lay out the
bits you know you can do, the bits you want to learn to be able to do.
The bits that will bore you but would be perfect for someone else - and
there's always /someone/ - and the bits that you don't want to do the
research and learning for right now.
Write your best specifications for the bits you aren't doing right now,
and find out the accepted way to advertise for helpers for open source
projects. Don't be disheartened if you don't get what you need right
away. You can always wind up posting an almost-complete pre-alpha
along with your requests for help. You're almost certain to find
a structural engineer who knows someone who can be nagged into it. <G>
Or, of course, you might surprise yourself and do it.
Jenn V.
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