Difference between revisions of "Open collaborative design/Vast libraries of machines and components"

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−	[[Image:Components.jpg|120px|right]] With enough people feeling that the principles of open source are worthwhile reasons to collaborate over designing physical objects then vast libraries of designs for everything from components and various sub-assemblies to complete artefacts, machines and large complex systems will emerge, freely available for anyone to download and incorporate into their own designs.	+	[[Image:Components.jpg|120px|right]] With many people contributing to open design projects, as happens currently with software, a universal commons will emerge made up of vast libraries of designs for everything from components and sub-assemblies through to complete artefacts, machines and complex systems, available for anyone to download and incorporate into their own designs, or help evolve as part of a wider project.
−	As in software, for components to be as widely re-usable in many different machine designs, they will need to be made as modular as possible. This will enable a huge reduction in duplication of effort and allow people to focus their efforts on creating new machines of increasing complexity, building on the work of others.	+	As in software, it would be useful for components to be re-usable in the sense of being able to be incorporated in many different machine designs, so should be made as modular as possible {{en}} perhaps containing details of parameters vital to their function so that their scale and shape can be altered to fit. This will enable a huge reduction in duplication of effort and allow people to focus their efforts on creating new machines of increasing complexity, building on the work of others.
	To aid the re-usability of components (and more complex parts) the CAD software should be able specify the vital dynamic functions of a component or assembly, so that it can easily be modified to be incorporated into new designs while ensuring it still works correctly.		To aid the re-usability of components (and more complex parts) the CAD software should be able specify the vital dynamic functions of a component or assembly, so that it can easily be modified to be incorporated into new designs while ensuring it still works correctly.
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Revision as of 17:13, 24 February 2007

With many people contributing to open design projects, as happens currently with software, a universal commons will emerge made up of vast libraries of designs for everything from components and sub-assemblies through to complete artefacts, machines and complex systems, available for anyone to download and incorporate into their own designs, or help evolve as part of a wider project.

As in software, it would be useful for components to be re-usable in the sense of being able to be incorporated in many different machine designs, so should be made as modular as possible – perhaps containing details of parameters vital to their function so that their scale and shape can be altered to fit. This will enable a huge reduction in duplication of effort and allow people to focus their efforts on creating new machines of increasing complexity, building on the work of others.

To aid the re-usability of components (and more complex parts) the CAD software should be able specify the vital dynamic functions of a component or assembly, so that it can easily be modified to be incorporated into new designs while ensuring it still works correctly.