[duado]

The question is what the intention was. A carpenter doing models for IKEA would be expected to design for million-unit volumes from the start.

[andyidsinga]

different problems here - if the production and scale are already well known and understood - there are, arguably only design choices to be made that fit into the existing tooling.

"the new chair model must fit into these production constraints"

"the new software must be written to fit into this system - JVM based, web interface ..."