User talk:William Neal

Greetings! I am trying to work on a word processing document (in Open Office) assembling the machine building instructions and related documentation from the wiki and other OSE web resource, and I wanted to ask you a bit about the Google Docs spreadsheet I presume you created and linked into the CEB_Press/Bill_of_Materials wiki article. My efforts stem from my limited technical writing experience, but I lack even a basic comprehension of standard machining and metalworking which causes issues as I attempt to handle the data and materials I need to compile the document, such as your spreadsheet, and thus I have a question for you (presuming, again, you have machining experience and came up with the Google Docs spreadsheet used on the CEB_Press/Bill of Materials article):

Noting the order sheets generated in the spreadsheet are shorter lists than the actual bill of materials, are they simply adding the various quantities and lengths of the same height/width/thickness-dimensioned materials with the intention they are to be cut to the appropriate sizes, thus making the needed materials to order a smaller list and perhaps saving over what a metal shop might charge to pre-cut?

Thank you for taking the time to answer my question. I hope to collaborate you and others on the Documentation Team in the future! --Howard V. Agnew 06:28, 20 September 2011 (CEST)