Metal shaping

Metal shaping in IC² is the process whereby raw metal inputs are transformed into a variety of output products.

Using shaped metal instead of bare ingots in crafting recipes allows for more depth in the process; however, it does require the appropriate tool(s) for the job.

Requirements

The first necessity for metal shaping is, naturally, metal. Dust (or other ore processing products) must be smelted into ingots (and depending on the recipe, possibly crafted into blocks as well) before being worked into other forms.

The second necessity is the appropriate tool for the desired product.

• Manual shaping: Forge Hammer and Cutter
• Machine shaping: mostly the Metal Former , also the Compressor and Block Cutting Machine

Machine shaping allows for additional recipes not possible with manual tools.

Shaped products

In the table below, the Metal Former's modes are identified by the appropriate icon - Rolling , Cutting , and Extruding . The other machines' recipes are noted by their machine icons.

Blank cells in the table indicate a recipe that does not exist^{[2.6.121-ex110]}, e.g. bronze ingots cannot be extruded into bronze cables and tin blocks cannot be extruded into tin shafts.

Recipe	Input Item	Mode or Machine	Manual Tool Also?	Output (based on metal used)
				Iron	Gold	Copper	Tin	Lead	Bronze	Steel
Plate			Yes
Item Casing			Yes	2 2	2 2	2 2	2 2	2 2	2 2	2 2
Cable			All except iron plate	4 4	4 4	2 2	3 3
Credit			No	2 2
Cable			No	4 4	4 4	3 3	3 3
Fuel Rod			No
(Multiple)			No
Shaft			No
Plate			No	9 9	9 9	9 9	9 9	9 9	9 9	9 9
Dense Plate	9 9		No

Note that extruding a copper ingot produces 3 cables, compared to 2 from cutting a copper plate (whether with a Cutter or in the Metal Former).