@ Bill
I enjoy designing all sorts of things to be honest, ranging from tooling to engines to guns really just a lot of different things, some things I design are just for the challenge and others are for a specific purpose - not trained in any formal design discipline or anything but do have an active mind and can visualise things, I have worked extensively in 3D modelling as a hobby and semi professionally in the past, both designing things as well as doing animations etc... lotsa fun lol...
Most of my working life has been spent in the civil construction industry, from operating the machines and fixing them to planning etc... The designing bug hit me in my early teens, designing an engine when I was 16 was fun...
@ Tin and the other people who have welcomed me and others here
Thankyou for your kind welcome
One is never too young or old to learn new skills, Padriac perhaps if you have some idea in your minds eye for an engine that would be a good place to start with designing the parts then making them
Learning to design I have found is often a trial an error process, with a lot of rubbing out and redoing areas of the project as you develop it, the best bit is, the errors you pick up as you design allows you to design better
Designing for how the item is going to built using the tools available is something I have had to learn over the years as in the past, I have only had the basics of tooling readily available to me... Makes for a lot of fun
