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Greetings All!
My class is now over. I asked if any of the students were willing to share their drawings with the community, and at least one said yes. I will be converting his SolidWorks drawings to PDF format in the next few weeks. I also made some sample drawings that I could submit to the project as well.
The next time I teach the course using this project, the students will be working in t
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Rick Montzka
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Minnesota Twin Cities RepRap User Group
Greetings Twin Cities RepRappers!
I need to get some stepper motors, and it looks like rrrf is currently sold out of them. Are the stepper motors specified by the RepRap folks special or is there a standard equivalent I can get from Digikey or Mouser? Since the stepper motors are moving parts, I'm planning on buying extra. I'm currently considering getting between 7 and 10. I have enough steel t
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Rick Montzka
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Minnesota Twin Cities RepRap User Group
Greetings All!
Thanks to Bruce W. for sending me the IGES files! They have been extremely helpful to our class.
I believe I have detected a slight design error on one part. Since a picture is worth a thousand words, I have attached my drawing showing the slight error. Most of the time I can find a dimension that comes out to an exact metric number, so I consider that to be the design intent. Th
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Rick Montzka
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Mechanics
Greetings All!
A quick legal question... Can I use the RepRap logo in the titleblock of the drawings that my class creates?
By the way Ian, I will allow the students to use any software they choose. I am going to guess the majority will choose SolidWorks, followed by Pro/ENGINEER, Inventor, and finally AutoCAD. A single brave soul may attempt AoI, but I doubt it. My students want a portfolio to
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Rick Montzka
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Mechanics
Greetings All!
I am going to use Darwin as a class project. We're going to create engineering drawings of all the RP parts and some of the purchased parts. Over the course of the semester I will try to work out the legal problems of using commercial software (academic version). I have the okay to do it if the information is not used for profit, from all four of the softwares we could use (Pro/EN
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Rick Montzka
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Mechanics