Feb 29, 2020 | @UR, Design, Printing
How would a post for cameras to take photos enter into scholarly research for a university geographer? It turns out that crowdsourcing some of the data taking can help engage the citizenry as well as provide photography to augment other data. For a national park or...
Oct 18, 2018 | Design, Printing, SketchUp
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 tweaks were...
Oct 21, 2014 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp
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 1914 with 7 major buildings on...
May 20, 2014 | Design, In the News, SketchUp
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 be called by...
Sep 29, 2013 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp
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)....
Sep 6, 2013 | @UR, Design, Printing, SketchUp
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 the sculptures for 3D...