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advice on continuing "carriage"

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Hello everyone!
My name is nino and I am a mechanical engineer, three-year-old graduate in September 2020, at the venerable age of 30 (other years out of course for personal problems, but this is not the important thing).
immediately after graduation I started working as a mechanical designer, getting my hands dirty in the workshop when needed. Unfortunately, despite a 3 year apprenticeship contract, the environment was not as much as the pay so in November I changed company and role. I am now responsible for purchasing in the technical production office of a company of machines for the food industry.

passion for technical design, cads and design (as much as I have only one year of experience and are everything except a real "designer") remains and I would still like to make it my main occupation. I've come up with a lot of ideas to keep this path alive and not remain anchored to my current role. I therefore ask you a comparison and also criticism in the case.

the first idea, since I stayed in good relations with the old workshop, is to continue to collaborate as a designer with them in my days free (of course Saturday and Sunday) and therefore to continue to enrich my knowledge from this point of view. the converse is that I should "simplely" perform without really testing me.

the second idea would be to take the different solidworks certifications, with the aim of deepening my knowledge of the program and then, possibly, attempt to switch from the technical office of production to the design one with a knowledge of the program and the company deeper, thus succeeding to be immediately productive to 100% (in two months in this company have already changed two designers, so the opportunity there would be).

These two ideas, among other things, do not exclude each other and perhaps join them could be beneficial even if expensive as energies.

the third, longer term, would be to complete the cycle of studies with a mastery, even telematic if view of good eye, a strong inclination towards design. but it really serves a master to make the designer, especially in medium-small companies where there are more "simple" designers than designers?
 
but it really serves a master to make the designer, especially in medium-small companies where there are more "simple" designers than designers?
No.
as already widely discussed in other threads, the master in mechanical engineering is not designed to provide the necessary knowledge to work as a designer/designer in the medium-small Italian companies. to do that, as you say, “it’s enough” to know very well the product you care about, make practical sense, know the work and the rules of the design.
to the master they fill you with formulas, concepts, skills that serve in other realities.

better the other two roads.
 
I agree with what I said:
- the master does not serve Italian companies of small/medium caliber. if you do it you must then enter specific sectors to make the title study
- the certificates solidworks ae Italian companies serve very little because there are young nerds who know everything about solidworks but unfortunately they do not know anything about mechanics but they cost very little
- find a company where you can work, learn and continue and improve
- you can't change your company every tot years.
- so much luck and territory it offers
- the sectors are recovering and there is so much to do in metallurgy, steel, automation, special machines, automotor, batteries etc.
 
first of all thanks to both for the answers.
I agree with what I said:
- the master does not serve Italian companies of small/medium caliber. if you do it you must then enter specific sectors to make the title study
- the certificates solidworks ae Italian companies serve very little because there are young nerds who know everything about solidworks but unfortunately they do not know anything about mechanics but they cost very little
- find a company where you can work, learn and continue and improve
- you can't change your company every tot years.
- so much luck and territory it offers
- the sectors are recovering and there is so much to do in metallurgy, steel, automation, special machines, automotor, batteries etc.
I answer for some points so I also have a wider discussion, if interesting ideas come out (not just for me, of course)
- the master does not serve Italian companies of small/medium caliber. if you do it you must then enter specific sectors to make the title studyof this I had partly already noticed, not only from my little work experience but also for direct testimonies with friends/collections. here from me (campania) most of the workshops/businesses with which I had contacts need to produce and are also anchored to products or solutions "old" but working. Fortunately in the company where they are now there is a strong propensity to innovation, even on specific customer requests.
- the certificates solidworks ae Italian companies serve very little because there are young nerds who know everything about solidworks but unfortunately they do not know anything about mechanics but they cost very littleI'm a little surprised. not that my curriculum is excellent, I am aware of it, but having had experience of workshop and therefore experience of mechanics also "practice", these certificates should not put me in a position of advantage in search of a possible new position? to a employer does not want to pay well a person who has knowledge of mechanics and cad, which therefore has a more trained eye, than to pay two "semanettoni" than of work or couplings know little or nothing?
- find a company where you can work, learn and continue and improveAs I said before, in my current company there is a strong propensity to innovate the product. working in the production office, I'm still in contact with the design and I'm often in interface with the designer leader. between my hands pass several tables of details and assemblies and therefore I have the possibility to "study them", as well as I have the opportunity to observe the machine work or speak with the technicians of my office.

for the rest, I have tried with as the sectors are recovering and fortunately (what I did not think) there are many opportunities in my area, some also well paid. myself, before moving to my current job, I had 4 more interviews for drawing places, then no longer continued for other factors.
 
medium small companies prefer to take a young man who is able to understand what you are telling him, and flank him (or you have to arrange) to learn use and costumes of the cad.... wrong or just ways that you use....and if you have luck can show better ways of modeling and management.
Meanwhile he finds himself hitting his head in mechanical problems.
seems strange but... certificates do not declare that x knows how to design, that is the work that goes to perform, but that knows how to use temperino and pencil of solidworks di
 
about cswa I link you some discussions:
 
about cswa I link you some discussions:
Thank you very much, very helpful these discussions!
 
I think you're already in the right company. I fully agree with the views expressed above.
Each cad has merits and defects, including the most blasoned, are tools that speed up design but do not invent anything.
Put yours in every job you do, it's my only advice.
 
It is difficult to see that working for two companies, doing the same kind of work, both from the companies themselves and, above all, from the tax, if things are not done well.
for the certifications on a specific cad, they do not serve anything.
They need courses, but no one's looking at the paper.
 

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