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Originally Posted by Xist
I remember watching a video where someone was sitting inside a Tesla without doors and said "They use bolts here, a weld here," and pointed to a third manner of fastening.
Don't they use a large number of small parts instead of designing a small number of large parts? I would think that after a while they would figure out how to merge frame pieces and save materials and weight, but have they?
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That's production engineering and it's as top-secret as it gets in auto manufacturing.Companies do buy each others products to disassemble and benchmark.Certain practices may be patented,so they might have to modify something enough to qualify as novel enough to warrant its own design patent.
Robotic spot-welding is where the money is.Anything and everything that can go that way,will go that way.Multi-metal lasered sheetmetal blanks for stamping.Hydroforming.