I am a mechanical design engineer. Every day I do the same thing: take a task that exists as a photo, a sketch on a napkin or the sentence «we need something like this», and turn it into a document package the shop can cut, bend, weld and paint from.
The difference between drawing something and engineering it is measured simply — by how many questions the shop asks after receiving the drawings. No questions means the job is done. If the structure had to be «fixed by welding on site», it was not.
So while modelling I keep in mind the things a render never shows: whether the welder's torch can physically reach that joint, whether that profile exists in the standard stock range, what bend radius this sheet thickness will survive, where the zinc will flow during hot-dip galvanising and where it needs a drain hole.
I am among the top 50 CSWP-certified engineers in Ukraine. That is not a title but the result of eight Dassault Systèmes exams — each one testing not interface knowledge but the ability to build a working model under time pressure.
