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Originally Posted by t walgamuth
I have another explanation for your lack of response.
Having an engineering degree does not automatically make whatever you have an opinion about correct, just as having an Architectural license make anything I think true without proof.
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The difference is the fact that I would not argue with you if you stated that I need a set of 2x12's to span 16 feet when I might have wanted to use 2 x 10's. I probably missed some important variable or definition or live load determination and I would defer to your knowledge on the subject without demanding "proof" from a third party and without arguing things I know very little about. If I wanted proof from a third party, I could just as easily go online and find out the info, but it still would not educate me as to the "why".
BTW, I hammer nails every weekend on the rentals. Does that qualify me to take an "opinion" against a registered architect?
In engineering, as in the physics of architecture, some things are not a matter of opinion. The 4wd vehicle will go off the road and the structure will fall if certain principles are violated.