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@hanhphuc The ranks are by number of posts and not length of time. I guess that means "New Member" doesn't always make sense if members post infrequently. But good Ides - I'll post the ranks so everyone can see what they are.

Hi @steven-g nice idea! And it provides an opportunity to test out a new function on the forums - Clubs. If you look at the navigation bar above, you should see the item "Clubs" on the left-hand end. Click on that and then click the green button to "Start a Club". A club is effectively a forum for a special interest group and the club owner (you) has control over it. I've not tried it before, so this would be a test run but I believe it's ideal for this type of project. Let me know if you need any help.

@CADTutor, Hi david, I am following several slack groups/channels with people presenting ideas and solutions to help in the fight against Covid-19. Today I came across this post where MIT are apparently releasing a design for the production of an emergency ventilator that can be produced for under $500.00. There are also a number of other initiatives for producing face-shields and face-masks etc. One thing that is very clear is that there are thousands of armchair doctors and inventors out there who are completely out of touch with reality, people rushing out to hospitals to deliver hundreds of home-made face-masks (kitchen roll paper squares with rubber bands tied to the corners) which would be funny if it wasn't also true. But here at CADTutor we have our own blend of crackpots and mad scientists. And I'm sure they could get together and have fun with this. Is it a lot of work to set up a dedicated Forum group that could maybe split into a few sub-headings (ventilator, mask, shield) and maybe split again into software categories or components ventilator-mech, ventilator-elec, etc. It would obviously need some thought first, and would more than likely prove to be as useful as a chocolate fireguard to the medical community. But with basic ground-rules like no using copyrighted material, and anything shared on the forum is open source and free to use by anyone. Then it could be at the very least interesting for some people, possibly the 3D print people among us. And I would think a great learning experience if people could share designs and techniques they use in Inventor, Solidworks, Fusion 360 to name but a few.