Mar 14, 2024 | Design, In the News
OpenSCAD (aka Open Source Computer-Aided Design) is known as the “The Programmers Solid 3D CAD Modeller.” In addition to being free, it has two significant features: Unlike many 3D sketching and CAD tools, OpenSCAD basically guarantees that shapes created...
Mar 13, 2024 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research
Information Services is currently working with a Biology Dept faculty member to design a feature-rich yet inexpensive concentrator/evaporator to be used to facilitate the preparations of biological samples for characterization and other experiments. As shown in the...
Mar 8, 2024 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research, SketchUp
Gel electrophoresis is a lab method used to separate mixtures of DNA, RNA, or proteins according to molecular size, and it is used in both teaching and scholarship here at UR. Dr. Omar Quintero needed help designing electrophoresis combs (and their associated holder)...
Dec 14, 2023 | @UR, Design, Printing
Every year since 2017, there has been a custom 3D printed IS giveaway ornament designed and printed for those in the division who would like one. Further, there are usually some that are rebranded with “UR” instead of “I.S.” for friend of...
Sep 30, 2022 | @UR, Design, Printing, Research, SketchUp
Kugelrohr is German for “sphere tube,” and it’s used in chemistry for vacuum distillation, often necessary for chemical synthesis. Professors Dominey and Goldman research lab designed the portion of a kugelrohr that would allow isolating the chemical compounds that...
