Design-for-Fiducials
Understanding design logic allows one to maximize the use fiducials. It emerges that fiducials can be designed in intentionally, at no additional cost or at little cost which is over-compensated by the use of those fiducials downstream in the build. This introduces the concept of Design for Fiducials as part of an Info-Rich Marking Strategy.
Fiducials are visible features of the build which can guide the placement of other modules. The build inherently has fiducials: such as you know that for example a wall will end up at another wall and this determines wall size. This is unintentional. Design-for-fiducials is the intentional inclusion of additional markers, or when choosing part lengths for composite strucures, choosing those lengths to locate design features downstream in the build. For example, a specific choice of sill plate length may indicate where a subsequent wall is located. Since there is a choice of what sill plate lengths one can use, an intentional use of a dimension that serves as a downstream fiducial - would be an example of 'design-for-fiducials'.
This concept is important, and can facilitate the build easily. For example, if every feature location was indicated by an existing feature - then we have simplified the build greatly. There are rich possibilities for doing such simplification in modular design.
