Video from Ultimaker 3 Printer
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Researching Flexible Printing Filament and Resin
Up until 2015 or so, there were very few plastics and resins for their respective types of 3D printers. Since then, there has been much work done to develop new an interesting resins and plastics for specialized uses, e.g., plastic filament … Continue reading
Custom Microscope Stage for Physics
Here is a time lapse video from the Ultimaker’s internal camera for the print of a custom stage for a microscope with Professor Christine Helms in the Physics Department. Professor Helms created the initial design in COMSOL Multiphysics while some … Continue reading
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3D Printed Campus
As part of the century celebration on campus, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology; Digital Scholarship Lab; and Boatwright Library collaborated on the printing of a 2 foot by 3 foot terrain map of campus as it looked in … Continue reading
SketchUp 2014 Plugins
As mentioned previously, SketchUp 2014 has a new scheme for installing plugins. Trimble SketchUp now hosts a repository for SketchUp plugins that one can access and install directly from SketchUp Make or Pro. There is an Extension Warehouse that can … Continue reading
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Second Tutorial for Creating a Cube Project for 3D Printing
The following tutorial contains the remaining steps for creating a cube designed for 3D printing in which the cube consists of 3 interlocking components each made of smaller cubes (click here for the 1st part of the tutorial).
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First Tutorial for Creating a Cube Project for 3D Printing
The following tutorial contains the bulk of the steps for creating a cube designed for 3D printing in which the cube consists of 3 interlocking components each made of smaller cubes. The remaining steps that would be necessary for preparing … Continue reading
A Biology Experiment
Professors Ovidiu Lipan and Laura Runyen-Janecky approached the CTLT with the idea of developing a new fly experiment for introductory science students in the Integrated Quantitative Science course in which students would study the locomotion of various ages of a … Continue reading
Tinkercad is Coming Back
Directly from the founder and CEO of Tinkercad is word that they are being bought by Autodesk, and there are “exciting plans for Tinkercad.” The shutdown of Tindercad has been rolled back, people can again sign up for accounts.” We … Continue reading
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3D Printing in the UR Alumni Magazine
As a collaborate project between University Communications, CTLT, and Boatwright Library, we developed the largest 3D print to be printed on a UR CTLT printer for inclusion in a video that documents the night culture in the library. The cubic … Continue reading
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SketchUp 2013
SketchUp 2013 was released this week and represents a slight improvement over past versions. The most notable changes, however, are that Trimble has furthered their effort in creatnig an identity for the product after they acquired SketchUp from Google in … Continue reading
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