We're planning to outsource some CAD work, but a lot of it involves proprietary designs and customer-specific parts. Before we send anything over, I'd like to make sure we're choosing the right company.

Besides signing an NDA, what do you usually look for? Certifications? Past projects? Security policies? Curious what your checklist looks like before trusting someone with sensitive engineering data.

Any thoughts on doing MIT SDM in 1 year if anyone’s done it?
The program I’m in requires me to complete my masters in 1 year hence the compressed schedule. I understand it’s usually 1.5 years to complete.
My undergrad was in engineering.

Hi All,

After having spent ~10Y working on SmarTeam, ENOVIA and 3DExperience Platform. And recently using Azure Devops and Salesforce. Seeing all the complexity, engineering that went into it, I was itching to create something similar of my own. Now that we have LLM assisted coding, big projects should be doable by a single person, right? This is my attempt (v0) doing the same.

1.9B Tokens and 28 Dollares Later, I have a working demo.

Since this was a big endeavour, I wanted to have structured knowledge base. Discussion with various LLMs suggested (OpenSpec)[https://openspec.dev/] is a good way to store this info and make changes to it. LLMs also suggested that I track workitems using (beads)[https://github.com/gastownhall/beads]

I initially modeled the RFLP (Requirements, Functional, Logical, Physical) framework from my early days of working on 3Dx. But I didn't have much sample data to seed. 3 days ago I had an Idea, what if I modeled the beads, openspec and git commits into it? it worked. I have seeded the demo with its own development history.

Looking to hear your thoughts and questions. Cheers!!

Any SE folk ever transition out of the field into a different career leverage their SE experience into it?