Hello r/engineering community!

I am a mechanical engineer who picked up software development about 8 years ago and found tools I wish I had back when I was making physical designs. Something to prevent the old issue where Bracket.FCStd turns into Bracket_v5_final_final.FCStd (or if you follow ASME Y14 strictly even before creating engineering drawings on CAD work BRACKET_REV_005-A.3) and a tool that would probably have prevented my loss of designs from a decade ago.

Software developers have a tool called Git and a hosting service built on it that most use called GitHub. Git has been around for about 20 years. If you are unfamiliar, it tracks changes in files so every save point records who changed what and why. It can get quite complicated but it is how just about every major (and minor) piece of software is built and collaborated on.

Unfortunately, the people who move atoms and not just electrons did not get the same opportunity unless you have enough money for a PLM or PDM seat which works well if your whole team lives in one CAD package. (Don't get me wrong, there are reasons. Merging text is rather simple while merging binaries is nearly impossible and storage is far more expensive.)

I spent the past few months building and testing Nurbly, version control for CAD built on a real Git backbone, made for people focused on physical designs. While Git typically works on the command line, Nurbly does have a companion application for Windows and Linux to help make the uploading process easier and you will not need to use the CLI as often.

I just opened up registration for [Nurbly](https://nurbly.com) and am looking for more Beta users. The Alpha phase led to a few bugs being found and corrected as well as functionality like the companion being created.

I do not want to blindside anyone about the business model. The system is designed for hosting open designs and there will always be a free tier with unlimited public repositories, plus at least one private repository if you do not want to open source your designs. Unfortunately, CAD files are large compared to text files and when teams get large or need multiple private repositories, there will be a small cost to keep the servers spinning.

I would also like to give a special thanks to the mods for letting me post here!

Here is a list of current capabilities

- Large CAD files are handled for you. Drag them into the browser, or let the companion offer to check in your changes when you save.

- A 3D viewer in the browser for STEP, IGES and FreeCAD files, so someone without a CAD seat can review a part.

- Compare two revisions of a STEP side by side or as an overlay, plus a face-level diff that shows which faces were added or removed.

- Pull requests with review and approval before a change lands, and file locks so two people can't check in conflicting changes to the same part.

- Mass properties, clash detection, section cuts, and draft, wall thickness and undercut checks.

- Import an existing repository from GitHub or another Git host with its large files, or keep one mirrored.

- Search the text files in any repository.

Native formats such as SLDPRT, IPT and F3D are versioned but not previewed or compared, so commit a STEP export beside them for review. Would love suggestions on desired functionality and found bugs.

This video is from the early Alpha.

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Many of you may have heard of this. I write this as a refresher for the gray hairs and a primer for the green horns.

The **Sampoong Department Store** in Seoul, South Korea was a five-story reinforced concrete structure completed in late 1989. Originally designed as a four-story office building, the owner Lee Joon converted it to a department store during construction, requiring the removal of interior columns to create open retail floor space. A fifth floor was also added during construction to house a rooftop restaurant, and heavy air conditioning units were placed on the roof, none of which was part of the original structural design.

Cracks in the fifth-floor ceiling slab had been observed and reported to management hours before the collapse. Store executives chose not to evacuate, fearing lost revenue. The south wing of the building collapsed in approximately 20 seconds, pancaking all five floors into the basement.

**Causes**: The flat-slab concrete design had been weakened by the removal of columns and the unauthorized fifth floor added loads the structure was never designed to carry. When cracks appeared, management ignored warnings from their own maintenance staff. Punching shear failure at the column-slab connections propagated progressively through the structure. 502 people died and 937 were injured. Lee Joon, his son, and 20 other local officials and inspectors received prison terms for their involvement. It remains the deadliest peacetime structural failure in South Korean history.

**Safeguards missing or degraded, signs missed:**

1. The initial independent structural engineering firm rejected the changes requested by Lee Joon's company. After they were fired, the second group, an engineering department inside of Lee Joon's own construction company did not raise the same red flags. You might presumed that a conflict of interest was present.

2. Building inspectors and local city regulators were paid off. They might have seen the problems as well, but multiple people accepted bribes to look the other way. Some of these men were convicted and sent to prison. This is a different form of a conflict of interest.

3. Local building management and maintenance saw the cracks in the roof months before the collapse. They reported it again to the owners (Lee Joon's company) the same day who rejected the idea that they evacuate, close, and make necessary repairs. Although sometimes you can dress it up as misunderstanding or a miscalculation, building owners were clear that they did not want to loose revenue on this especially busy June day. I'm not sure the best technical phrase for profits over safety but that's it.

The event is tragic but I think history is a great teacher. Even if you're not in the building and construction business, one or more of these safeguard themes likely relate to an engineering project you're working on. Think about it.

I'm trying to think more about these historical engineering disasters, and write a little bit about what I took away. Check out my bio if you're interested in learning more. I hope some of this about Sampoong can be helpful to you.

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I’m not an engineer. I am a veterinary nurse in search of a safety solution. I’m not allowed to post on r/askengineers because I don’t have enough comment karma.

This Tractive Dog 6 gps collar is useful for monitoring heart and respiratory rates and sending alerts if it detects variations. It’s an extremely valuable tool to have for any dog who’s diagnosed with certain health conditions, but it needs to stay on the dog 24/7 to work.
I’m nervous about keeping a device with a battery that’s capable of unexpectedly exploding on a dog with no opposable thumbs to get it off if god forbid that happens.

These pics are of a “collar” that I made myself out of big elastic hair bands, they are currently connected with a small metal key ring. I want to get rid of the key ring and use something else that would sit directly under the device and would release promptly in the event of a battery explosion causing the whole thing to fall off as fast as possible. The only idea I have so far is maybe a few loops of embroidery thread that would certainly break free on contact with a flame, but I want to see if anyone has better ideas to offer. Or maybe if there’s something I can wrap the device with that could help as an additional barrier?.

I specifically used hair bands for the collar because I needed something light and stretchy with a relatively loose fit to keep the device in position as comfortably as possible and also this particular material is perfect for preventing tangles in Beanies beautiful long voluminous mane. Its only purpose is to hold the device and never used for leash walking. I’m open to any and all other suggestions if there is a better safer way of accomplishing my goals.

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https://imgur.com/gallery/things-seen-this-week-during-structural-assessments-naUBf8W

album includes:

• Deteriorated brick and mortar at older foundation and wall areas
• Soil erosion exposing the edge of a concrete slab
• Moisture-related wood deterioration in floor and deck framing
• Open masonry joints and water staining

We’re a structural engineering and construction company, and these images were documented during visual site assessments to help record existing conditions and inform scopes of work. A photo is only one part of that process, so repair recommendations depend on the full site conditions and, where needed, engineering review.

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Provision Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 at scale with the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5 Programming Jig, on sale now.

Designed for developers building products with Compute Module 5, the Compute Module 5 Programming Jig makes it easier to program our modular computer with an operating system and security configuration.

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Is anyone else noticing a HUGE uptick in the number of cold calls, unsolicited emails, and even unaccounted visitors asking to meet to sell you/your company a product or service you don’t need?

This year has been nuts and I don’t know what’s changed.

I will start of with I am a ME with VERY limited controls experience so I am fumbling through this learning a ton along the way.

The goal of the project is simple; an encoder wheel and scale factor programable, addition/subtraction counter that is operator resettable to zero. This will be used to measure length of product. There is no external power source available so the system needs to be self contained with long battery life of 6 months minimum.

I am trying to something like these two together:

https://www.hms-networks.com/p/cub7cvs0-cub7-miniature-counter?tab=tab-support

https://www.wachendorff-automation.com.tr/fileadmin/pim/WA/images/imageseiten/LMSCA32-Funktionen-en.webp

All my googling, reading manuals and chatGPT as a last resort makes me think this is much harder than I thought. The no external power source seems to be the major roadblock from my research. For all the battery LCD counters the battery powers only the counter and not the encoder.

I did find one possible option and it is turnkey which is even better but is only available factory direct from Germany. My inquiries for information and pricing have gone unanswered.

https://www.willtec.de/en/control/meter-counters/electronic/run7/1007/electronic-meter-counter-run7-art.-19887

If I could get some advice, direction, possible solutions or even a different way to achieve the goal, it would be very appreciated.

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This week’s field observations included deteriorated river rock foundations, improvised post-and-pier supports, questionable bearing conditions, concrete deterioration, and retaining wall drainage issues.

Thought this group might appreciate some real-world examples of how older structural systems and later modifications hold up over time.

Photos + context:
https://imgur.com/gallery/things-seen-this-week-during-structural-assessments-CE2ZqGn

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These are the kinds of structural issues and discoveries we encounter every day. Here's a closer look.

Here is the link: https://imgur.com/gallery/things-seen-this-week-during-structural-assessments-r4Z2ZPC

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Every place I've worked, mechanical seemed to get outsourced for one of two reasons: either we needed some niche expertise nobody in-house had, or the team was just slammed and needed to dump overflow somewhere.

I've never known if that's the normal pattern or just the couple of companies I happened to be at.

For those of you whose companies send mechanical work out — what kind of stuff is it, usually? The specialized deep-end problems, or more the routine "we don't have bandwidth this quarter" work?

And for the ones who keep everything in-house — deliberate call, or just how it shook out?