Talk:Build a RepRap
Note: Before posting a Mendel Variant here
Each design on this page should be at a minimum proven to successfully print a 3d object and be able to reproduce some of it's parts. Also, available drawings/models under an open source license are expected. This page is meant to be a landing page for RepRap users and should not include non-working designs or those that are in development, Category:Mendel Development is intended for that.
Slicer software
I wonder if the section of CAM STL>G-Code software is up to date. I have seen Slicer being used by some and there may be others, I am not a specialist yet so will not make edit here but looks like there may be some bits missing.
KalleP 09:06, 6 May 2012 (UTC)
So many RepRaps, yet no seeming structure nor order? Confusing
It seems, last time I checked reprap.org, a year ago, amount of various RepRaps have grown quite much, however, there seems to be no sorting, no descriptions, just images and links. Thus, could someone experienced consider forming RepRap-models into a comparison / table with sortable total cost, how easy the model is to source, rigidity, portability, etc? Just a suggestion.
-- Copycat (talk) 01:56, 1 October 2013 (PDT)
- There are a lot of ways to sort the various variants. Everyone will prefer their own. I am also frustrated because there are many designs on this wiki that are not linked from anywhere and they do not get exposure to test them for popularity. The problem with the table you suggest is that the ratings will be rather personal and it is not going to be relevant to someone somewhere else with different skills and resources.
- As it mentions on this talk page the options listed here should be those that can call themselves RepRap 3D printers. They need to be able to replicate (so must be working) and they need to be open source (so others can make them). There are a lot of other designs that exist that fail on one or both of these tests.
- I have been making a purely scientific classification (that is not perfect) of all the designs that I have found in the wiki based on their mechanical arrangement. I did not start this process but have tried to clean it up a lot to include every design I find in at least one type of classification.
- Obviously you can become the specialist you seek on this user edited wiki and learn a lot in the process when you edit the relevant pages, even if you just take the initiative to design and create the start of such a table it may spur others on to fix/improve/maintain it if it has perceived value.
