User talk:Rapatan

Rapatan any chance you could upload the eagle files to go along with your Pololu / Arudino Mega shield

Welcome

Dear Rapatan,

Welcome to RepRap.

Wow, the MetalicaRap looks pretty amazing. Thank you for telling us about it. I can see that a person could make some amazing stuff with it. --DavidCary 02:58, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

processes

The Discussion of Advantages and Disadvantages of different Tool head processes. looks very useful. I keep thinking that a page describing various potential RepRap fabrication processes already exists somewhere, but perhaps I am mis-remembering materials (potential materials) and Automated Circuitry Making (potential PCB fabrication processes) -- which are related but not quite the same.

Would you mind if I made it easier for people to link to the page you created? I want to change the name to something short and easy to link, like fabrication processes, and to convert the current name to a subtitle.

Thank you for answering some questions I had about EBM on that page.

Alas, well-meaning Wiki edits and computer auto-renumbering often makes "see (1) below" and "see (2) below" quickly meaningless or misleading. I find "Harvard referencing" much more resistant to this kind of accidental mis-referencing. I made some guesses about what you meant and converted Discussion of Advantages and Disadvantages of different Tool head processes. to use "Wikipedia:Harvard referencing" -- please edit if I still got things switched around. --DavidCary 02:53, 19 December 2010 (UTC)

I think both links should exist, "tool head" and fabrication process as some people see a new developments with in the context of a new tool head, which can be loaded like any other tool head on an existing machine, eg Mendel tool head.

Fabrication process is not related to an existing machine and is much more broad and so a bit too broad for reprap site?. Their are lots of other broad sites out their on the web.

I think stay with tool head if you can not do both to one page,

thanks for looking after the site, IF you make contact with any Vacuum physicists or Metallurgist do pass on our details! Thanks for all the backup!

-- Rapatan

You are very welcome.

Many additive and subtractive processes can be done directly with a single toolhead on a RepRap -- such as fused filament fabrication, routing, milling, etc.

However, sometimes the easiest way(s) of fabricating a desired part from a desired material requires 2 toolheads, or a more indirect process. (A few such processes are already listed on the Materials/Appropriate Machines page.)

I agree that this site should stay focused on things that RepRap can do and things that people are trying to get RepRap to do, rather than becoming an encyclopedia of every kind of machine known to man.

I think the Materials/Appropriate Machines page is the one I was thinking about earlier. It is a list of materials, with each material having its own sub-list of processes/toolheads used to make parts from that material.

Should we merge those pages together, Discussion of Advantages and Disadvantages of different Tool head processes. and Materials/Appropriate Machines? --DavidCary 15:07, 21 December 2010 (UTC)